1st Joint ESMAC-GCMAS Meeting - Análise de Marcha
1st Joint ESMAC-GCMAS Meeting - Análise de Marcha
1st Joint ESMAC-GCMAS Meeting - Análise de Marcha
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O-08<br />
DOUBLE CALIBRATION VS GLOBAL OTPIMISATION: PERFORMANCE AND<br />
EFFECTIVENESS FOR CLINICAL APPLICATION<br />
Stagni, Rita, Dr , Fantozzi, Silvia, Dr., Cappello, Angelo, Prof.<br />
DEIS, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy<br />
Summary/conclusions<br />
The performance of double calibration and global optimisation in reducing soft tissue artefact<br />
propagation to relevant joint kinematics was compared. For clinical application the<br />
quantification of actual subject-specific kinematics is necessary. Thus, according to what<br />
assessed, double calibration should be preferred.<br />
Introduction<br />
Soft Tissue Artefact (STA) was recognized the most critical source of error in clinical motion<br />
analysis [1]. A recent quantification [2] study has assessed marker displacements up to several<br />
centimetres resulting in large errors on knee rotations and translations, during the execution of<br />
several motor tasks, comparing stereophotogrammetric motion analysis results with a 3D<br />
fluoroscopic gold standard. In particular, STA propagation to knee kinematics resulted to make<br />
the quantified ab/adduction (AA) and internal/external rotation (IE) knee angles useless for<br />
clinical <strong>de</strong>cision. Given the criticality of STA, several compensation methods were proposed in<br />
the literature [3]. Among these, recently proposed double calibration (DC) [4] was assessed to<br />
be very effective in the reduction of STA, allowing to calculate even reliable knee translations,<br />
comparable with the 3D fluoroscopic gold standard. On the other hand, the STA compensation<br />
method implemented in some commercial stereophotogrammetric systems is the global<br />
optimisation (GO) [5]. This method operates minimising the motion of the markers with<br />
respect to the un<strong>de</strong>rlying bony segments, assuming a pre<strong>de</strong>fined kinematic constraint at the<br />
joints. For clinical application, the STA compensation method applied should allow to quantify<br />
the actual kinematics of analysed subject. The aim of the present work was to assess the<br />
performance of DC and GO in quantifying subject-specific kinematics.<br />
Statement of clinical significance<br />
STA propagation to joint kinematics can nullify the clinical interpretability of<br />
stereophotogrammetric analysis [2]. STA was assessed to be strongly subject- and task-specific<br />
[2]. The present work provi<strong>de</strong>s relevant indication for the choice of the STA compensation<br />
method which allows to better reconstruct the specific kinematics.<br />
Methods<br />
The kinematic data-set was obtained by the synchronous combination of traditional<br />
stereophotogrammetry and 3D fluoroscopy analysis [2]. Data were obtained during the<br />
extension against gravity (EG), step-up/step-down (SUD), and sit-to-stand/stand-to-sit (STS)<br />
motor task from two subjects (P#1 and P#2) (age 67 and 64 years, height 155 and 164 cm,<br />
weight 58 and 60 Kg, Body Mass In<strong>de</strong>x 24 and 22 kg/m2, follow-up 18 and 25 months) treated<br />
by total knee replacement. DC [4] and GO [5] methods were applied to stereophotogrammetric<br />
data, for the reconstruction of knee kinematics. The DC was performed interpolating two<br />
calibration configurations acquired at the extremes of the motion, for each motor task, with<br />
respect to knee flexion angle. The GO was applied assuming a ball and socket mo<strong>de</strong>l for both<br />
the knee and the hip joint (according to [5] and most commercial applications). The knee<br />
kinematics reconstructed from 3D fluoroscopy was assumed as the reference gold standard [6].<br />
The root mean square error (RMSE) of knee rotations and translations reconstructed using DC<br />
and OG was calculated over the repetitions for each subject and motor task with respect to the<br />
fluoroscopic gold-standard.<br />
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