Status analysis system of scoliosis
Zoltán Vámossy, Miklos Kocsis · 2013
This project wishes to provide assistance for the most widespread civilization problem, the diagnosis of spine diseases and the measurement of their successful treatment. According to the physiotherapists participating in the implementation of the project this new system proves very helpful for them. Although there are some methods for measuring scoliosis conditions and changes in conditions, these are manual, lengthy, complicated and rather expensive methods. Their main drawback is that - apart from being time-consuming and expert-dependent - because of the inherent subjective elements, it is difficult to compare them, especially if different experts with different experience make the measurements. The procedure developed in this project (we make a photo of the patient with a stereo camera system which later can be analyzed in-depth) with the fixed tolerance limits, balanced recording circumstances makes an exact, comparable, extensional model of the patient's spine curves, and is able to calculate and record their differences. All elements of this prototype device system including the recording circumstances, cameras, recording, testers, markers have been tested in practice, and these experiences are well-grounded in theoretical assumptions. This software development ranges from camera calibration and image rectification to modeling. All the recordings, measured and calculated results can be saved.