Knee Kinematic Image Analysis

Objective

• Investigate 3-D kinematics of implanted knee motion
• Release TKA patients' pain by designing new prosthesis

Methods

• Acquire perspective images of knee implant in-vivo using X-ray scanner, or digital radiography (DR)
• Recognize 3-D pose/position by 2-D/3-D image registration with 3-D geometrical model of knee implant

Results

References

• Y. Tsumori, S. Yoshiya, M. Kurosaka, S. Kobashi, N. Shibanuma, and M. Yamaguchi, "Analysis of Weight-Bearing kinematics of Posterior Stabilized Total Knee Arthroplasty with Novel Helical Post-Cam Design," The Journal of Arthroplasty, Vol. 26, No. 8, pp. 1556-1561, 2011. [pubmed] [Sciencedirect]