Evaluation of skin and muscular deformations in a non-rigid motion analysis

Michela Goffredo; Marco Carli; Silvia Conforto; Daniele Bibbo; Alessandro Neri; Tommaso D'Alessio

doi:10.1117/12.595239

14 April 2005 Evaluation of skin and muscular deformations in a non-rigid motion analysis

Michela Goffredo, Marco Carli, Silvia Conforto, Daniele Bibbo, Alessandro Neri, Tommaso D'Alessio

Proceedings Volume 5746, Medical Imaging 2005: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.595239
Event: Medical Imaging, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

During contraction and stretching, muscles change shape and size, and produce a deformation of skin tissues and a modification of the body segment shape. In human motion analysis, it is indispensable to take into account this phenomenon and thus approximating body limbs to rigid structures appears as restrictive. The present work aims at evaluating skin and muscular deformation, and at modeling body segment elastic behavior by analysing video sequences that capture a sport gesture. The soft tissue modeling is accomplished by using triangular meshes that automatically adapt to the body segment during the execution of a static muscle contraction. The adaptive triangular mesh is built on reference points whose motion is estimated by using the technique based on Gauss Laguerre Expansion. Promising results have been obtained by applying the proposed method to a video sequence, where an upper arm isometric contraction was present.

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Michela Goffredo, Marco Carli, Silvia Conforto, Daniele Bibbo, Alessandro Neri, and Tommaso D'Alessio "Evaluation of skin and muscular deformations in a non-rigid motion analysis", Proc. SPIE 5746, Medical Imaging 2005: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, (14 April 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.595239

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