Arm movement speed assessment via a Kinect camera : a preliminary study in healthy subjects

• Main Authors: Elgendi, Mohamed, Picon, Flavien, Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia, Abbott, Derek
• Other Authors: Institute for Media Innovation
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Medicine::Biomedical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104896; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20379
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Background Many clinical studies have shown that the arm movement of patients with neurological injury is often slow. In this paper, the speed of arm movements in healthy subjects is evaluated in order to validate the efficacy of using a Kinect camera for automated analysis. The consideration of ar...