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The ability to estimate 3D human body pose and movement, also known as human pose estimation (HPE), enables many applications for home-based health monitoring, such as remote rehabilitation training. Several possible solutions have emerged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Sizhe An , Yin Li , Umit Ogras

Human pose estimation is a major computer vision problem with applications ranging from augmented reality and video capture to surveillance and movement tracking. In the medical context, the latter may be an important biomarker for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Luca Schmidtke , Athanasios Vlontzos , Simon Ellershaw , Anna Lukens , Tomoki Arichi , Bernhard Kainz

Age estimation has attracted attention for its various medical applications. There are many studies on human age estimation from biomedical images. However, there is no research done on mammograms for age estimation, as far as we know. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Charitha Dissanayake Lekamlage , Fabia Afzal , Erik Westerberg , Abbas Cheddad

We adapt a biomechanical argument of Rashevsky, which places limits on the stress experienced by a torso supported by the legs, to deduce that body mass $m$ of growing children should scale as the $p$th power of height $h$ with $7/3<p<8/3$.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-02 N. J. Mackay

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurological disorder characterized by gait impairment. PD has no cure, and an impediment to developing a treatment is the lack of any accepted method to predict disease progression rate. The primary aim…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-26 Vyom Raval , Kevin P. Nguyen , Ashley Gerald , Richard B. Dewey , Albert Montillo

Accurate fetal growth assessment from ultrasound (US) relies on precise biometry measured by manually identifying anatomical landmarks in standard planes. Manual landmarking is time-consuming, operator-dependent, and sensitive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chiara Di Vece , Zhehua Mao , Netanell Avisdris , Brian Dromey , Raffaele Napolitano , Dafna Ben Bashat , Francisco Vasconcelos , Danail Stoyanov , Leo Joskowicz , Sophia Bano

Trampoline gymnastics involves extreme human poses and uncommon viewpoints, on which state-of-the art pose estimation models tend to under-perform. We demonstrate that this problem can be addressed by fine-tuning a pose estimation model on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Léa Drolet-Roy , Victor Nogues , Sylvain Gaudet , Eve Charbonneau , Mickaël Begon , Lama Séoud

Objective: The clinical diagnosis of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) typically involves manually measuring key radiological angles -- Center-Edge (CE), Tonnis, and Sharp angles -- from pelvic radiographs, a process that is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Yang Li , Leo Yan Li-Han , Hua Tian

Understanding the structural growth of paediatric brains is a key step in the identification of various neuro-developmental disorders. However, our knowledge is limited by many factors, including the lack of automated image analysis tools,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Vaanathi Sundaresan , Nicola K Dinsdale

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) models used in clinical settings are increasingly deployed to support clinical decision-making. However, when training data become stale due to changes in demographics, environment, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ioannis Bilionis , Ricardo C. Berrios , Luis Fernandez-Luque , Carlos Castillo

Estimating Body Mass Index (BMI) from camera images with machine learning models enables rapid weight assessment when traditional methods are unavailable or impractical, such as in telehealth or emergency scenarios. Existing computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Frederik Rajiv Manichand , Robin Deuber , Robert Jakob , Steve Swerling , Jamie Rosen , Elgar Fleisch , Patrick Langer

Facial analysis permits many investigations some of the most important of which are craniofacial identification, facial recognition, and age and sex estimation. In forensics, photo-anthropometry describes the study of facial growth and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Lucas F. Porto , Laise N. Correia Lima , Ademir Franco , Donald M. Pianto , Carlos Eduardo Machado Palhares , Donald M. Pianto , Flavio de Barros Vidal

As we gain access to a greater depth and range of health-related information about individuals, three questions arise: (1) Can we build better models to predict individual-level risk of ill health? (2) How much data do we need to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-27 Mark Green

The kinematics of human movements and locomotion are closely linked to the activation and contractions of muscles. To investigate this, we present a multimodal dataset with benchmarks collected using a novel pair of Intelligent Knee Sleeves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Wenwen Zhang , Arvin Tashakori , Zenan Jiang , Amir Servati , Harishkumar Narayana , Saeid Soltanian , Rou Yi Yeap , Meng Han Ma , Lauren Toy , Peyman Servati

Understanding the factors that shape students' mathematics performance is vital for designing effective educational policies. This study applies explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques to PISA 2018 data to predict math…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Liu Liu , Rui Dai

Growth charts are widely used in pediatric care for assessing childhood body size measurements (e.g., height or weight). The existing growth charts screen one body size at a single given age. However, when a child has multiple measures over…

Applications · Statistics 2015-09-18 Wenfei Zhang , Ying Wei

In this paper, we present a detailed analysis on extracting soft biometric traits, age and gender, from ear images. Although there have been a few previous work on gender classification using ear images, to the best of our knowledge, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Dogucan Yaman , Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Nurdan Sezgin , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Background and Objectives: This paper focuses on using AI to assess the cognitive function of older adults with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia using physiological data provided by a wearable device. Cognitive screening tools are…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-10 Assma Habadi , Milos Zefran , Lijuan Yin , Woojin Song , Maria Caceres , Elise Hu , Naoko Muramatsu

Neuroimaging datasets keep growing in size to address increasingly complex medical questions. However, even the largest datasets today alone are too small for training complex models or for finding genome wide associations. A solution is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Christian Wachinger , Benjamin Gutierrez Becker , Anna Rieckmann

Early detection of chronic and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) is crucial for effective treatment during the initial stages. This study explores the application of wearable devices and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in order to predict…