Research on video measuring method of knee joint angle based on cross ratio invariability / 生物医学工程学杂志

ABSTRACT

With an un-calibrated camera a new method is proposed in this paper to measure dynamically the bending angle of knee-joint based on cross ratio invariability. Firstly, by video image processing technique, we detected 25 circular objectives distributed in the aided measurement tool and determined their geometric centers in the video frame respectively. Then we further computed the extending direction of thigh and shank by detecting position of two rectangular targets tied on them. Finally, using of the principle of cross ratio invariability in Projection Geometry, we could realize real-time dynamic measurement of the bending angle of knee-joint based on the method. Experiments have proved that the measurement precision of the introduced approach could satisfy basic requirements of clinical applications.