Title :
The application of the movement classification system in the diagnosis of children with Cerebral Palsy
Author :
Chang, Tzyh-Chyang ; Lee, Jiann-Der ; Wang, Kai-Wei ; Liu, Li-Chang ; Wu, Ching-Yi
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering, Chang-Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan
Abstract :
Cerebral Palsy is mean damage to the brain, causing non-progressive brain injury, such as hemiplegia, limbs palsy, epilepsy, involuntary movements, poor coordination. This paper proposes a movement evaluation and classification system, in view Cerebral Palsy children hand movement smoothness evaluation. In addition, the application of the movement classification system in the diagnosis of children with cerebral palsy is also discussed. The system contains: image capture, image segmentation, and information classification processing. Momentum analysis parameters and coordination neural network are used to conduct the data classification. The experimental results are shown that the proposed system has the higher accurate diagnostic rate of children are divided into cerebral palsy groups or normal groups.
Keywords :
Birth disorders; Brain injuries; Central nervous system; Epilepsy; Image segmentation; Kinematics; Medical treatment; Pediatrics; Testing; User interfaces; Algorithms; Biomechanics; Cerebral Palsy; Child; Child, Preschool; Computers; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Models, Statistical; Movement; Programming Languages; Reproducibility of Results; Software;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1814-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649908