Assessment of Microsoft Kinect in the Monitoring and Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients

What a pile of useless crap, 'Assessment, not something useful like a protocol'. Does no one understand anything about what stroke survivors want and need? Like 100% recovery? Nothing less.

Assessment of Microsoft Kinect in the Monitoring and Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients

• Authors
• Authors and affiliations

• João Abreu
• Sérgio Rebelo
• Hugo ParedesEmail author
• João Barroso
• Paulo Martins
• Arsénio Reis
• Eurico Vasco Amorim
• Vítor Filipe

• João Abreu
  • 1
• Sérgio Rebelo
  • 1
• Hugo Paredes
  • 1
  • 2
  Email author
• João Barroso
  • 1
  • 2
• Paulo Martins
  • 1
  • 2
• Arsénio Reis
  • 1
  • 2
• Eurico Vasco Amorim
  • 1
  • 2
• Vítor Filipe
  • 1
  • 2

1. 1.University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto DouroVila RealPortugal
2. 2.INESC TECPortoPortugal

Conference paper

First Online:

29 March 2017

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56538-5_18

Volume 570 of the book series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC)

Cite this paper as:

Abreu J. et al. (2017) Assessment of Microsoft Kinect in the Monitoring and Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients. In: Rocha Á., Correia A., Adeli H., Reis L., Costanzo S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 570. Springer, Cham

Abstract

Telerehabilitation is an alternative way for physical therapy of stroke patients. The monitoring and correction of exercises can be done through the analysis of body movements recorded by an optical motion capture system. This paper presents a first study to assess the use of Microsoft Kinect in the monitoring and rehabilitation of patients who have suffered a stroke. A comparative study was carried out to assess the accuracy of joint angle measurement with the Microsoft Kinect (for Windows and for Xbox One) and Optitrack™. The results obtained in the first experiment showed a good agreement in the measurements between the three systems, in almost all movements. These results suggest that Microsoft Kinect, a low cost and markerless motion capture system, can be considered as an alternative to complex and high cost motion capture devices for the monitoring and rehabilitation of stroke patients.