Advances in Sensing Body Motion for Neuromechanics and Therapeutics
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearables".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 2899
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This special issue solicits original research and review articles on recent advances in the development of technologies to record and analyze motion of the human body and neurophysiological signals. In particular, motion analysis is used in a many clinical disciplines and discovery science fields but remains dominated by 3D kinematic motion capture using optical markers. Recent advances in body-worn sensor technology and open-source machine learning libraries have fundamentally changed what is possible in the field. This special issue will highlight novel technology applications in clinical and discovery science fields concerned with sensing human body motion, including biomechanics, neuromechanics, kinesiology, rehabilitation, and mobile health.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Applications of body-worn sensors for motion analysis in clinical and healthy populations
- Applications of computer vision and/or deep learning approaches for motion analysis in clinical and healthy populations
- Supervised and unsupervised motion analysis for “digital diagnostics”
- Shallow and deep learning classification of gait or postural abnormalities and/or response to therapies
- Recent applications of wearables and other remote monitoring in mobile health
- Descriptions of novel publicly-available datasets
- Studies addressing kinematic or kinetic hypotheses conducted using publicly-available datasets
- Novel hardware technologies for applications such as those above
- Novel analytical or statistical approaches for data streams generated in applications such as those above
Pilot, feasibility, or nonrandomized intervention studies will be given full consideration provided that they follow established guidelines (Thabane, L., Ma, J., Chu, R. et al. A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how. BMC Med Res Methodol 10, 1 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-10-1). Pre-submission inquiries will be happily considered by the Guest Editor.
Dr. J.Lucas McKayGuest Editor
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Keywords
- Gait
- Posture
- Rehabilitation
- Pharmacotherapy
- Inertial measurement unit
- Biomechanics
- Neuromechanics
- Movement disorders
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