Elastic Shape Analysis of Movement Data.

ABSTRACT: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a highly prevalent degenerative joint disease, and the knee is the most commonly affected joint. Biomechanical factors, particularly forces exerted during walking, are often measured in modern studies of knee joint injury and OA, and understanding the relationship among biomechanics, clinical profiles, and OA has high clinical relevance. Biomechanical forces are typically represented as curves over time, but a standard practice in biomechanics research is to summarize these curves by a small number of discrete values (or landmarks). The objective of this work is to demonstrate the added value of analyzing full movement curves over conventional discrete summaries. We developed a shape-based representation of variation in full biomechanical curve data from the I

SUBMITTER: Borgert JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12755838 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature