Development of rehabilitation system (RehabGame) through Monte-Carlo tree search algorithm using kinect and Myo sensor interface

Esfahlani, Shabnam Sadeghi; Wilson, George

doi:10.1109/sai.2017.8252217

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“…Additional categories with lower frequency in the retrieved literature were cerebral palsy, hemiparesis, and neurological motor deficits. Furthermore, one study was related to Parkinson disease [19], one study was related to burn contractures [20], two studies addressed patients with brain impairment [21,22], three focused on general cognitive deficits [23][24][25], and other conditions were identified as shoulder [26] or wrist [12,27] injuries.…”

Section: Medical Conditionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kinect seems to be the most preferred sensor for capturing body parts and following their movement in space, which was used by 15.4% (26/169) of the studies included in the review. Some of the studies used only the Kinect sensor for their systems [26,[62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73], whereas others combined it with biosignal capturing devices such as electromyogram (EMG) [24,41,74,75] or a sensing jacket [52] to gain better control of the user's movement for the final goal (ie, rehabilitation). In addition, some studies have used Kinect combined with gaming devices such as VR headsets [76] and a Wii balance board [77] or other devices such as goniometers [78][79][80], Tyromotion Timo plate [77], Xsen 3D sensor [81], body markers [82], and a customized haptic glove [83].…”

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Serious Gaming Technology in Upper Extremity Rehabilitation: Scoping Review

Koutsiana¹,

Ladakis²,

Fotopoulos³

et al. 2020

JMIR Serious Games

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Background: Serious gaming has increasingly gained attention as a potential new component in clinical practice. Specifically, its use in the rehabilitation of motor dysfunctions has been intensively researched during the past three decades. Objective: The aim of this scoping review was to evaluate the current role of serious games in upper extremity rehabilitation, and to identify common methods and practice as well as technology patterns. This objective was approached via the exploration of published research efforts over time. Methods: The literature search, using the PubMed and Scopus databases, included articles published from 1999 to 2019. The eligibility criteria were (i) any form of game-based arm rehabilitation; (ii) published in a peer-reviewed journal or conference; (iii) introduce a game in an electronic format; (iv) published in English; and (v) not a review, meta-analysis, or conference abstract. The search strategy identified 169 relevant articles. Results: The results indicated an increasing research trend in the domain of serious gaming deployment in upper extremity rehabilitation. Furthermore, differences regarding the number of publications and the game approach were noted between studies that used commercial devices in their rehabilitation systems and those that proposed a custom-made robotic arm, glove, or other devices for the connection and interaction with the game platform. A particularly relevant observation concerns the evaluation of the introduced systems. Although one-third of the studies evaluated their implementations with patients, in most cases, there is the need for a larger number of participants and better testing of the rehabilitation scheme efficiency over time. Most of the studies that included some form of assessment for the introduced rehabilitation game mentioned user experience as one of the factors considered for evaluation of the system. Besides user experience assessment, the most common evaluation method involving patients was the use of standard medical tests. Finally, a few studies attempted to extract game features to introduce quantitative measurements for the evaluation of patient improvement. Conclusions: This paper presents an overview of a significant research topic and highlights the current state of the field. Despite extensive attempts for the development of gamified rehabilitation systems, there is no definite answer as to whether a serious game is a favorable means for upper extremity functionality improvement; however, this certainly constitutes a supplementary means for motivation. The development of a unified performance quantification framework and more extensive experiments could generate richer evidence and contribute toward this direction.

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Section: Commercial Sensorsmentioning

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Serious Gaming Technology in Upper Extremity Rehabilitation: Scoping Review

Koutsiana¹,

Ladakis²,

Fotopoulos³

et al. 2020

JMIR Serious Games

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“…These tools involve haptic devices, electroencephalography (EEG) and brain-computer interface based serious games centred on virtual reality platforms. Data acquisition and motion capture in this system is done by means of azure Kinect [17], myo armband [18] and Saitek's rudder foot pedal [19]. Also, a gaming environment is created and the motion inputs are interfaced with the HTC Vive VR headset [16] models can be used for acquiring the same data.…”

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Virtual Reality Gaming Technology for Mental Stimulation and Therapy

Smys¹

2019

JITDW

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Requirement for rehabilitation from injuries is a major requirement for several victims of injury and trauma in recent days. Several mechanisms for patient engagement such as videogames and so on are developed for therapy and mental simulation. In this paper, a Virtual Reality (VR) gaming system is developed integrating electromyography (EMG) signals and integrating motion capture. Yei-3 space sensors or Azure Kinect, Myo armband and Saitek’s rudder foot pedal provides the inputs to the motion capture system. The user input is measured in terms of bicep or muscle efforts. A HTC Vive VR headset is used that is synchronised with the sensors for the videogame sequence controls. The system is tested on 15 subjects and provided 96% accurate control results.

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Serious Gaming Technology in Upper Extremity Rehabilitation: Scoping Review (Preprint)

Koutsiana¹,

Ladakis²,

Fotopoulos³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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BACKGROUND Serious gaming is increasingly gaining attention as a potential new component in clinical practice. Specifically, its use in the rehabilitation of motor dysfunctions has been intensively researched during the past three decades. OBJECTIVE This scoping review aims to evaluate the current role of serious games in the upper extremity rehabilitation and identify common methods and practice, technology patterns as well as gaps. This objective is approached via the exploration of published research efforts over the years. METHODS The literature research, using the PubMed and Scopus databases, included articles published until June 2019. The eligibility criteria were (i) to include any form of introduced game-based arm rehabilitation, (ii) to be a study published in a peer-reviewed journal or conference, (iii) to introduce a game in an electronic format, (iv) to be a study in English, (v) to not be a review, meta-analysis, editorial or commentary. The review identified 169 relevant articles. RESULTS The results indicate an increasing research trend in the domain of serious gaming deployment in upper extremity rehabilitation. Furthermore, differences regarding the number of publications and the game approach were noted between studies which used commercial devices in their rehabilitation systems, with studies which created any type of robotic arm, glove or other devices for the connection with the game platform. A significant observation concerns the evaluation of the introduced systems. Although one-third of the studies evaluate in real use their implementations including patients, in most cases, there is the need for a bigger number of participants and better testing of the rehabilitation scheme efficiency over time. Most of the studies which included some form of assessment for the introduced rehabilitation game, mentioned among others the user experience as a factor for the system’s evaluation. Besides the user experience assessment, the most common evaluation method involving patients was the use of medical standard tests. Finally, a few studies attempted to extract game features in order to introduce quantitative measurements for the evaluation of the patient’s improvement. CONCLUSIONS This paper presents an overview of a significant research topic and highlights the current state of the field. Despite all the attempts for the development of a rehabilitation system, there is not a definite answer of whether a serious game is a favorable means for the upper extremity functionality improvement, but it is certainly constitutes a supplementary means for motivation. The development of a unified performance quantification framework and the conductance of wider scale experiments could generate richer evidence and contribute in this direction.

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Development of rehabilitation system (RehabGame) through Monte-Carlo tree search algorithm using kinect and Myo sensor interface

Cited by 3 publications

References 41 publications

Serious Gaming Technology in Upper Extremity Rehabilitation: Scoping Review

Serious Gaming Technology in Upper Extremity Rehabilitation: Scoping Review

Virtual Reality Gaming Technology for Mental Stimulation and Therapy

Serious Gaming Technology in Upper Extremity Rehabilitation: Scoping Review (Preprint)

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