TY - GEN
T1 - Gait analysis management and diagnosis in a prototype virtual reality environment
AU - Alfalah, Salsabeel
AU - Harrison, David
AU - Charissis, Vassilis
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Current medical data derived from gait analysis and diagnosis of various musculoskeletal pathologies offer a plethora of text based and imaging data. The large volume and complexity of the particular data present a number of issues during the collection, storage, searching and visualisation process for gait analysis management and diagnosis. Adhering to above it is evident that a simplified, holistic and user-friendly system is required in order to improve the acquisition and comparison of medical data in a timely manner. Further consultation with health professionals suggested that the proposed prototype should entail an automated system that can extract, save and visualise the data from different sources, in order to enhance medical data visualisation, increase efficiency and thus improve quality of service and management. This work presents the development stages of a new prototype system for managing medical data for gait analysis, which additionally offer simulation capacity in a Virtual Reality environment in order to assist the medical practitioners towards a faster an better informed evaluation of each condition.
AB - Current medical data derived from gait analysis and diagnosis of various musculoskeletal pathologies offer a plethora of text based and imaging data. The large volume and complexity of the particular data present a number of issues during the collection, storage, searching and visualisation process for gait analysis management and diagnosis. Adhering to above it is evident that a simplified, holistic and user-friendly system is required in order to improve the acquisition and comparison of medical data in a timely manner. Further consultation with health professionals suggested that the proposed prototype should entail an automated system that can extract, save and visualise the data from different sources, in order to enhance medical data visualisation, increase efficiency and thus improve quality of service and management. This work presents the development stages of a new prototype system for managing medical data for gait analysis, which additionally offer simulation capacity in a Virtual Reality environment in order to assist the medical practitioners towards a faster an better informed evaluation of each condition.
KW - gait analysis
KW - human computer interaction
KW - virtual reality
KW - musculoskeletal conditions
KW - 3D visualisation
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-39420-1_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-39420-1_1
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783642394195
VL - 8022
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 3
EP - 11
BT - Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: Systems and Applications
A2 - Shumaker, R.
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin Heidelberg
ER -
