A study of an expert system for interpreting human walking disorders

Author

Bylander, Tom ; Weintraub, Michael ; Simon, Sheldon R.

Author_Institution

Div. of Math., Texas Univ., San Antonio, TX, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

1-4 Mar 1994

Firstpage

178

Lastpage

184

Abstract

QUAWDS is a system for interpreting human gait. The interpretation of gait data produced by gait analysis laboratories is difficult to learn and is a time consuming activity for a clinician. As a result, gait analysis is currently practiced by only a few “experts”, making the widespread use of gait analysis limited in clinical practice. In this paper, we discuss a clinical evaluation of QUAWDS for a patient population having cerebral palsy with gait disorders. The implemented computer system performed at about 75% effectiveness when its performance is compared to the gait study reports produced by our expert

Keywords

biomechanics; medical expert systems; performance evaluation; QUAWDS; cerebral palsy; clinical evaluation; expert system; gait analysis; gait disorders; human walking disorders interpretation; patient population; performance; Birth disorders; Cause effect analysis; Expert systems; Humans; Information analysis; Laboratories; Legged locomotion; Muscles; Orthopedic surgery; Performance analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Artificial Intelligence for Applications, 1994., Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonia, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5550-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CAIA.1994.323676

Filename

323676