TY - GEN
T1 - SEMG-based detection of poor posture
T2 - 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2012
AU - Zabaleta, Haritz
AU - Rodriguez-De-Pablo, Cristina
AU - Miljkovic, Nadica
AU - Keller, Thierry
AU - Garcia, Gonzalo A.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The cost of the medical treatment of low back pain (LBP) was estimated to be $24 billion in the early 90s. Also, 80% of the LBP is estimated to be due to poor or inappropriate posture. The ultimate goal of the project is to develop a surface electromyography (sEMG)-based device that could be used to prevent and treat LBP by postural re-education or simply for on-the-spot sEMG feedback. In this paper we present the results and conclusions of a feasibility study for sEMG-based poor posture classifier. The results show that a s-EMG based poor posture classifier could be possible. The sensitivity for the best linear classifier model was 72% and the specificity was 78%. The same signal feature returned very different results from one participant to another. This inter-subject variability could be due to different muscular activation patterns during posture correction.
AB - The cost of the medical treatment of low back pain (LBP) was estimated to be $24 billion in the early 90s. Also, 80% of the LBP is estimated to be due to poor or inappropriate posture. The ultimate goal of the project is to develop a surface electromyography (sEMG)-based device that could be used to prevent and treat LBP by postural re-education or simply for on-the-spot sEMG feedback. In this paper we present the results and conclusions of a feasibility study for sEMG-based poor posture classifier. The results show that a s-EMG based poor posture classifier could be possible. The sensitivity for the best linear classifier model was 72% and the specificity was 78%. The same signal feature returned very different results from one participant to another. This inter-subject variability could be due to different muscular activation patterns during posture correction.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84870799987&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346154
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346154
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 23366115
AN - SCOPUS:84870799987
SN - 9781424441198
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 1210
EP - 1213
BT - 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2012
Y2 - 28 August 2012 through 1 September 2012
ER -