Motion Sequence Alignment for A Kinect-Based In-Home Exercise System for Lymphatic Health and Lymphedema Intervention

An Ti Chiang, Qi Chen, Yao Wang, Mei R. Fu

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Abstract

Using Kinect sensors to monitor and provide feedback to patients performing intervention or rehabilitation exercises is an upcoming trend in healthcare. However, the users' motion sequences differ significantly even when doing the same exercise and are not temporally aligned, making the evaluation of the correctness of their movement challenging. We have developed a method to divide the long motion sequence for each exercise into multiple subsequences, each corresponding to the transition of one key pose to another. We also developed a subsequence-based dynamic time warping algorithm that can automatically detect the endpoint of each subsequence with minimum delay, while simultaneously aligning the detected subsequence to the reference subsequence for the exercise. These methods have been integrated into a prototype system for guiding patients at risks for breast-cancer related lymphedema to perform a set of lymphatic exercises in order to promote lymphatic health and reduce the risk of lymphedema. The system can provide relevant feedback to the patient performing an exercise in real time.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2072-2075
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538636466
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 26 2018
Event40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018 - Honolulu, United States
Duration: Jul 18 2018Jul 21 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
Volume2018-July
ISSN (Print)1557-170X

Other

Other40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHonolulu
Period7/18/187/21/18

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Signal Processing
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Health Informatics

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