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Proposal for post hoc quality control in instrumented motion analysis using markerless motion capture: development and usability study

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Title:Proposal for post hoc quality control in instrumented motion analysis using markerless motion capture: development and usability study
Creators Name:Röhling, H.M., Althoff, P., Arsenova, R., Drebinger, D., Gigengack, N., Chorschew, A., Kroneberg, D., Rönnefarth, M., Ellermeyer, T., Rosenkranz, S.C., Heesen, C., Behnia, B., Hirano, S., Kuwabara, S., Paul, F., Brandt, A.U. and Schmitz-Hübsch, T.
Abstract:BACKGROUND: Instrumented assessment of motor symptoms has emerged as a promising extension to the clinical assessment of several movement disorders. The use of mobile and inexpensive technologies such as some markerless motion capture technologies is especially promising for large-scale application but has not transitioned into clinical routine to date. A crucial step on this path is to implement standardized, clinically applicable tools that identify and control for quality concerns. OBJECTIVE: The main goal of this study comprises the development of a systematic quality control (QC) procedure for data collected with markerless motion capture technology and its experimental implementation to identify specific quality concerns and thereby rate the usability of recordings. METHODS: We developed a post hoc QC pipeline that was evaluated using a large set of short motor task recordings of healthy controls (2010 recordings from 162 subjects) and people with multiple sclerosis (2682 recordings from 187 subjects). For each of these recordings, 2 raters independently applied the pipeline. They provided overall usability decisions and identified technical and performance-related quality concerns, which yielded respective proportions of their occurrence as a main result. RESULTS: The approach developed here has proven user-friendly and applicable on a large scale. Raters' decisions on recording usability were concordant in 71.5%-92.3% of cases, depending on the motor task. Furthermore, 39.6%-85.1% of recordings were concordantly rated as being of satisfactory quality whereas in 5.0%-26.3%, both raters agreed to discard the recording. CONCLUSIONS: We present a QC pipeline that seems feasible and useful for instant quality screening in the clinical setting. Results confirm the need of QC despite using standard test setups, testing protocols, and operator training for the employed system and by extension, for other task-based motor assessment technologies. Results of the QC process can be used to clean existing data sets, optimize quality assurance measures, as well as foster the development of automated QC approaches and therefore improve the overall reliability of kinematic data sets.
Keywords:Instrumented Motion Analysis, Markerless Motion Capture, Visual Perceptive Computing, Quality Control, Quality Reporting, Gait Analysis
Source:JMIR Human Factors
ISSN:2292-9495
Publisher:JMIR Publications
Volume:9
Number:2
Page Range:e26825
Date:1 April 2022
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.2196/26825
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