TY - THES
T1 - Ultrasound based skeletal motion capture
T2 - the development and validation of a non-invasive knee joint motion tracking method
AU - Niu, Kenan
N1 - The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement n.323091
PY - 2018/2/15
Y1 - 2018/2/15
N2 - Musculoskeletal disorders, particularly in the lower limb, are the most common cause of severe long-term pain and physical disability, and affect hundreds of millions of people around the world. Accurate measurement tools are required to diagnose these pathologies and to evaluate the efficacy of various treatment options. In this respect, detailed measurement and analysis of human movement have shown to be of great value. The goal of this research was to develop and validate a new non-invasive method based on ultrasound that is able to track skeletal motion around the knee joint and to quantify tibiofemoral kinematics under dynamic conditions. To achieve this goal we separated the work in various parts which are outlined in this thesis. Average rotational errors of 1.51 ± 1.13° (mean ± SD) and average translational errors of 3.14 ± 1.72 mm (mean ± SD) were obtained. In conclusion, ultrasound based skeletal motion capture is feasible and has the potential to achieve high accuracy in the estimation of skeletal motion and quantification of 6-DOF joint kinematics. The currently developed system showed the ability to directly measure skeletal kinematics despite soft tissue deformations between the transducer and the bony surface. Therefore, this method has great potential to be considered as a suitable alternative for measuring human skeletal motion. In this thesis a considerable number of improvement steps are described which will enable to achieve higher accuracies and sampling rates than those described in this thesis. After implementation of these improvements a unique measurement system can be obtained that can be applied to a variety of applications such as quantification of dynamic motion and deformation of soft tissue structures, general gait analysis, prosthetic design optimization, orthopaedic reconstructive surgery and surgical navigation. This thesis provides the foundation for these future applications.
AB - Musculoskeletal disorders, particularly in the lower limb, are the most common cause of severe long-term pain and physical disability, and affect hundreds of millions of people around the world. Accurate measurement tools are required to diagnose these pathologies and to evaluate the efficacy of various treatment options. In this respect, detailed measurement and analysis of human movement have shown to be of great value. The goal of this research was to develop and validate a new non-invasive method based on ultrasound that is able to track skeletal motion around the knee joint and to quantify tibiofemoral kinematics under dynamic conditions. To achieve this goal we separated the work in various parts which are outlined in this thesis. Average rotational errors of 1.51 ± 1.13° (mean ± SD) and average translational errors of 3.14 ± 1.72 mm (mean ± SD) were obtained. In conclusion, ultrasound based skeletal motion capture is feasible and has the potential to achieve high accuracy in the estimation of skeletal motion and quantification of 6-DOF joint kinematics. The currently developed system showed the ability to directly measure skeletal kinematics despite soft tissue deformations between the transducer and the bony surface. Therefore, this method has great potential to be considered as a suitable alternative for measuring human skeletal motion. In this thesis a considerable number of improvement steps are described which will enable to achieve higher accuracies and sampling rates than those described in this thesis. After implementation of these improvements a unique measurement system can be obtained that can be applied to a variety of applications such as quantification of dynamic motion and deformation of soft tissue structures, general gait analysis, prosthetic design optimization, orthopaedic reconstructive surgery and surgical navigation. This thesis provides the foundation for these future applications.
U2 - 10.3990/1.9789036544825
DO - 10.3990/1.9789036544825
M3 - PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT
SN - 978-90-365-4482-5
PB - University of Twente
CY - Enschede
ER -