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Measurement of Skeletal Muscle Pennation Angle

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Pennation angle (PA) is an important indicator for skeletal muscle activity, and automatic calculation of PA has high practical value in fields such as sports medicine and rehabilitation engineering. This chapter mainly introduces the automatic calculation methods used in PA measurement, especially focusing on those related to Hough transform and Radon transform, and their derivative versions designed to be more robust and accurate as well. Today, on different datasets, these methods have generally demonstrated calculation accuracy of PA measurement comparable to traditional manual methods, but are faster and more objective.

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    Yongjin Zhou

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Research Institute for Smart Ageing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Yong-Ping Zheng

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Zhou, Y., Zheng, YP. (2021). Measurement of Skeletal Muscle Pennation Angle. In: Sonomyography. Series in BioEngineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7140-1_3

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