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Discriminating motion patterns of ACL reconstructed patients from healthy individuals

  • Worapan Kusakunniran
  • , Nattaporn Dirakbussarakom
  • , Nantawat Prachasri
  • , Duangkamol Yangchaem
  • , Jos Vanrenterghem
  • , Mark Robinson
  • Mahidol University
  • Liverpool John Moores University

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Abstract

Injury to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) can lead to inadequate movement during sport and daily life activities, leading to increased risk of reinjury or dropouts from any form of physical activity. Thus, it is important to detect such movement problems so that they can be prevented through focused rehabilitation programmes. This paper proposes a method to seek out differences of movement patterns between an ACL reconstructed group and a healthy control group. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is applied to movement data in a training dataset. Then, Cohen's d is used to select such principle components (PCs) that can efficiently distinguish movement patterns of ACL reconstructed patients from healthy individuals. In our experiment, 10 subjects are used to evaluate the proposed method. Each subject contains nine observed variables of movement information. The proposed method can achieve a promising performance of above 90% accuracy to discriminating motion patterns of ACL reconstructed patients from healthy individuals. Also, vector loads of the selected PCs are plotted and visualized. Four variables significantly discriminated the ACL reconstructed group from the healthy control group, which are: 1) ground reaction force, 2) hip joint moment, 3) knee joint moment, and 3) ankle joint moment. Some of which have been identified as key predictors of ACL injury risk.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 14th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, MVA 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages447-450
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9784901122153
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Jul 2015
Event14th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, MVA 2015 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: 18 May 201522 May 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 14th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, MVA 2015

Conference

Conference14th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, MVA 2015
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period18/05/1522/05/15

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