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Estimator of Knee Biomechanics based on Deep Learning
Jae Hwan Bong, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Danish Shaikh, Seongkyun Jeong
J. Korean Soc. Precis. Eng. 2021;38(11):871-877.
Published online November 1, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7736/JKSPE.021.075
Knee contact forces and knee stiffness are biomechanical factors worth considering for walking in knee osteoarthritis patients. However, it is challenging to acquire these factors in real time; thus, making it difficult to use them in robotic rehabilitation and assistive systems. This study investigated whether trained deep neural networks (DNNs) can capture the biomechanical factors only using kinematics during gait, which is possible to measure via sensors in real time. A public dataset of walking on the ground was analyzed through biomechanical analysis to train and test DNNs. Using the training dataset, several DNN topologies were explored via Bayesian optimization to tune the hyperparameters. After optimization, DNNs were trained to estimate the biomechanical factors in a supervised manner. The trained DNNs were then evaluated using two new datasets, which were not used in the training process. The trained DNNs estimated the biomechanical factors with a high level of accuracy in both types of test datasets. Results confirmed that DNNs can estimate the biomechanical factors based on only kinematics during gait.
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