A Stereophotogrammetric-Based Method to Assess Spatio-Temporal Gait Parameters on Healthy and Parkinsonian Subjects
Maranesi, Elvira ; Capitanelli, Leonardo ; Capecci, Marianna ; Ghetti, Giacomo Giuseppe ; Mercante, Oriano ; Di Nardo, Francesco ; Burattini, Laura ; Ceravolo, Maria Gabriella ; Fioretti, Sandro
New technologies and methodologies in human movement analysis
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Mechanics of locomotion and balance
Generally, the study of gait requires the detection of successive heel contacts and toe-off instants. Traditional gait analysis methods obtain…
A System with Line Lasers and Webcam for 3D Reconstruction: A Feasibility Study
Barone, Vinicio ; Verdini, Federica ; Di Nardo, Francesco ; Burattini, Laura ; Fioretti, Sandro
Optical and photonic sensors and systems
A prototype system has been designed to analyze the movement of a subject, using a single webcam and a series of line lasers of low cost…
Assessment of the Activation Patterns of the Muscles Involved in the FR Test in Diabetic Neuropathic Patients
Maranesi, Elvira ; Di Nardo, Francesco ; Ghetti, Giacomo Giuseppe ; Mercante, Oriano ; Rabini, Rosa Anna ; Burattini, Laura ; Fioretti, Sandro
Signal processing in physiological systems
This study was designed to assess, in elderly neuropathic diabetic (DN) patients, the activation patterns of the main muscles involved in the…
Dependence of Gait Parameters on Height in Typically Developing Children
Agostini, Valentina ; Nascimbeni, Alberto ; Di Nardo, Francesco ; Fioretti, Sandro ; Burattini, Laura ; Knaflitz, Marco
Human performance – Gait
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Rehabilitation – Locomotion
In clinical gait analysis is fundamental to have available normative data, to be used as a reference in the interpretation of pathological…
Evaluation of Gender-Related Differences in Co-Contraction Activity of Shank Muscles during Gait
Mengarelli, Alessandro ; Maranesi, Elvira ; Barone, Vinicio ; Burattini, Laura ; Fioretti, Sandro ; Di Nardo, Francesco
Signal processing in physiological systems
This study aims to investigate the possible differences between genders in co-contractions of tibialis anterior (TA) and gastrocnemius…
The Occurrence Frequency: A Suitable Parameter for the Evaluation of the Myoelectric Activity during Walking
Di Nardo, Francesco ; Agostini, Valentina ; Knaflitz, Marco ; Mengarelli, Alessandro ; Maranesi, Elvira ; Burattini, Laura ; Fioretti, Sandro
Signal processing in physiological systems
Many studies have recently addressed the quantification of the natural variability of myoelectric activity during walking, considering hundreds…
The Segmented-Beat Modulation Method for ECG Estimation
Agostinelli, Angela ; Giuliani, Corrado ; Fioretti, Sandro ; Di Nardo, Francesco ; Burattini, Laura
Nonlinear filtering
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Adaptive filtering
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Signal processing in physiological systems
Electrocardiographic (ECG) tracings corrupted by noise with frequency components in the ECG frequency band, may result useless unless…
Validation of an Optimized Algorithm to use Kinect in a Non-Structured Environment for Sit-to-Stand Analysis
Cippitelli, Enea ; Gasparrini, Samuele ; Spinsante, Susanna ; Gambi, Ennio ; Verdini, Federica ; Burattini, Laura ; Di Nardo, Francesco ; Fioretti, Sandro
Technologies for active ageing
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Assistive technology for the ageing population
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Innovations in active ageing
The aim of this work is to obtain reliable kinematic measures relative to the execution of the Sit-to-Stand functional evaluation test, by…
