2026-06-14T05:08:20Zhttps://repisalud.isciii.es/rest/oai/requestoai:repisalud.isciii.es:20.500.12105/172912024-09-21T19:48:10Zcom_20.500.12105_15322com_20.500.12105_2051col_20.500.12105_16927
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Moreno, Francisco-Ángel
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Merchán-Baeza, José Antonio
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González-Sánchez, Manuel
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González-Jiménez, Javier
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Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio I
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[Moreno, Francisco-Angel] Univ Malaga, MAPIR UMA Grp, Dept Ingn Sistemas & Automat, Inst Invest Biomed Malaga IBIMA, Malaga, Spain
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[Gonzalez-Jimenez, Javier] Univ Malaga, MAPIR UMA Grp, Dept Ingn Sistemas & Automat, Inst Invest Biomed Malaga IBIMA, Malaga, Spain
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[Antonio Merchan-Baeza, Jose] Univ Malaga, Dept Fisioterapia, Grp Clinimetria FE 14, Inst Invest Biomed Malaga IBIMA, Malaga, Spain
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[Gonzalez-Sanchez, Manuel] Univ Malaga, Dept Fisioterapia, Grp Clinimetria FE 14, Inst Invest Biomed Malaga IBIMA, Malaga, Spain
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[Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio I.] Univ Malaga, Dept Fisioterapia, Grp Clinimetria FE 14, Inst Invest Biomed Malaga IBIMA,Malaga, Spain
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[Gonzalez-Sanchez, Manuel] Univ Jaen, Dept Ciencias Salud, Jaen, Spain
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[Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio I.] Queensland Univ Technol, Fac Hlth, Sch Clin Sci, Brisbane, Australia
2024-01-23T20:12:29Z
2024-01-23T20:12:29Z
2017-02-22
10.3390/s17020424
1424-8220
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
http://hdl.handle.net/10668/10908
28241455
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/17291
In clinical practice, patients' balance can be assessed using standard scales. Two of the most validated clinical tests for measuring balance are the Timed Up and Go (TUG) test and the MultiDirectional Reach Test (MDRT). Nowadays, inertial sensors (IS) are employed for kinematic analysis of functional tests in the clinical setting, and have become an alternative to expensive, 3D optical motion capture systems. In daily clinical practice, however, IS-based setups are yet cumbersome and inconvenient to apply. Current depth cameras have the potential for such application, presenting many advantages as, for instance, being portable, low-cost and minimally-invasive. This paper aims at experimentally validating to what extent this technology can substitute IS for the parameterization and kinematic analysis of the TUG and the MDRT tests. Twenty healthy young adults were recruited as participants to perform five different balance tests while kinematic data from their movements were measured by both a depth camera and an inertial sensor placed on their trunk. The reliability of the camera's measurements is examined through the Interclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC), whilst the Pearson Correlation Coefficient (r) is computed to evaluate the correlation between both sensor's measurements, revealing excellent reliability and strong correlations in most cases.
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depth camera
healthy young adults
inertial sensor
multi-directional reach test
timed up and go
Experimental Validation of Depth Cameras for the Parameterization of Functional Balance of Patients in Clinical Tests.
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