Autonomous assessment of Patient Progress. A software suite allowing objective and qualitative assessment of arm movements of a person with brain or physical injury

Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Computer Science - Miscellaneous, grade: 1, ( Middlesex University in London ), language: English, abstract: This thesis presents an approach of developing FUGL-MEYER test using Microsoft Kinect. This method of developing the application for FUGL-MEYER test will change the measurement format from subjective to objective. This approach can solve the intertester reliability problem of the FUGL-MEYER test. Software is developed to calculate the different joint angles so that it can give measurements in objective format and data gets stored in text file in respective test folders.

Testing has been done with human skeleton to check the distance from Kinect which gives more accurate results with minimum deviation. This thesis also gives some future development ideas. The main aim of this study is to apply this approach in development of FUGL-MEYER test to enhance the current measurement strategy of the test.