Toward a low-cost gait analysis system for clinical and free-living assessment

Cassim Ladha; Silvia Del Din; Kianoush Nazarpour; Aodhan Hickey; Rosie Morris; Michael Catt; Lynn Rochester; Alan Godfrey

doi:10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591086

Toward a low-cost gait analysis system for clinical and free-living assessment

Cassim Ladha, Silvia Del Din, Kianoush Nazarpour, Aodhan Hickey, Rosie Morris, Michael Catt, Lynn Rochester, Alan Godfrey

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Gait is an important clinical assessment tool since changes in gait may reflect changes in general health. Measurement of gait is a complex process which has been restricted to bespoke clinical facilities until recently. The use of inexpensive wearable technologies is an attractive alternative and offers the potential to assess gait in any environment. In this paper we present the development of a low cost analysis gait system built using entirely open source components. The system is used to capture spatio-temporal gait characteristics derived from an existing conceptual model, sensitive to ageing and neurodegenerative pathology (e.g. Parkinson's disease). We demonstrate the system is suitable for use in a clinical unit and will lead to pragmatic use in a free-living (home) environment. The system consists of a wearable (tri-axial accelerometer and gyroscope) with a Raspberry Pi module for data storage and analysis. This forms ongoing work to develop gait as a low cost diagnostic in modern healthcare.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2016
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1874-1877
Number of pages	4
Volume	2016-October
ISBN (Electronic)	9781457702204
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591086
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 18 Oct 2016
Event	38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2016 - Orlando, United States Duration: 16 Aug 2016 → 20 Aug 2016

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Conference	38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Orlando
Period	16/08/16 → 20/08/16

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Ladha, C., Del Din, S., Nazarpour, K., Hickey, A., Morris, R., Catt, M., Rochester, L., & Godfrey, A. (2016). Toward a low-cost gait analysis system for clinical and free-living assessment. In 2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2016 (Vol. 2016-October, pp. 1874-1877). Article 7591086 IEEE. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591086

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Ladha, C, Del Din, S, Nazarpour, K, Hickey, A, Morris, R, Catt, M, Rochester, L & Godfrey, A 2016, Toward a low-cost gait analysis system for clinical and free-living assessment. in 2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2016. vol. 2016-October, 7591086, IEEE, pp. 1874-1877, 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2016, Orlando, United States, 16/08/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591086

Toward a low-cost gait analysis system for clinical and free-living assessment. / Ladha, Cassim; Del Din, Silvia; Nazarpour, Kianoush et al.
2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2016. Vol. 2016-October IEEE, 2016. p. 1874-1877 7591086.

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