NDLI: Human Spine Profile Measurement by Means of Stereo Vision

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Wang, Y.Z. Xie, D.L. Zhang, C.X. He, J. Hu, Y.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Electron. Inf. & Autom., Tianjin Univ. of Sci. & Technol. (Wang, Y.Z.; Xie, D.L.; Zhang, C.X.; He, J.)
Abstract	Measurement of human spinal profile is useful in spinal deformation detection and ergonomic investigation. Usually, the measurement is based on radiological test, which is in company with invasive radiation. This paper proposes a quantitative, objective measurement method by means of stereo vision. While measuring, markers having three different colors, red, green, and blue, are sequentially adhered on the skin along the process points of lower cervical and upper thoracic spine. The color difference among the different markers and human skin is very significant, so that the position of a marker can be easily extracted from background. Therefore, the corresponding pixels are easily identified in two images acquired by two cameras. In this way, the spinal profile is measured in 3D. Accordingly, a sensor is implemented and experiments are conducted
Sponsorship	IEEE Syst., Man and Cybernetics Hebei Univ.
Starting Page	3944
Ending Page	3949
File Size	224192
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1424400619
DOI	10.1109/ICMLC.2006.258751
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-08-13
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Humans Anthropometry Stereo vision Biomedical measurements Spine Testing Computed tomography Computer vision Area measurement Energy measurement Spine profile Visual measurement
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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