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Next-Generation Models Using Optimized Joint Center Location

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Joint center location is essential in order to define anatomical axes of skeletal segments and is therefore clinically significant for the calculation of joint kinematics during motion analysis. Different methods exist to localize joint centers using either predictive methods, based on anthropometric measurements, or functional methods, based on the relative movement of the segments adjacent to the joint. Validations of these methods using medical imaging have been extensively studied in the literature on different groups of subjects. Consequently, methods of correction between the calculated location of the joint center and the exact one, found by medical imaging, were suggested by several authors. Recent studies showed that new age-specific predictive methods could be computed in order to better locate joint coordinate systems. In the future, new techniques could use the exact locations of joint centers, which would be localized by medical imaging, in combination with motion capture techniques using registration techniques; thus, exact kinematics and kinetics of the joints could be computed.

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  1. Laboratory of Biomechanics and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Saint-Joseph, damascus street, 17-5208, Mar Mikhael, Beirut, Lebanon

    Ayman Assi & Ismat Ghanem

  2. Institut de Biomécanique Humaine Georges Charpak, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Paris, France

    Ayman Assi & Wafa Skalli

  3. Hôtel-Dieu de France Hospital, University of Saint-Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon

    Ismat Ghanem

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  1. Motion & More, Barcelona, Spain

    Bertram Müller

  2. Klinik für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgi, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Sebastian I. Wolf

  3. Institut for Biomechanics und Orthopedic, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Gert-Peter Brueggemann

  4. Houston, Texas, USA

    Zhigang Deng

  5. ACRISP, FedUniversity, Cremorne, New South Wales, Australia

    Andrew McIntosh

  6. Wilmington, Delaware, USA

    Freeman Miller

  7. Research, C-Motion, Inc., Germantown, Maryland, USA

    William Scott Selbie

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  1. Movement Analysis Laboratory, Clinic for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery; Center for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Spinal Cord Injury;Heidelberg University Hospital, Schlierbacher Landstr. 200a, 69118, Heidelberg, Germany

    Sebastian I. Wolf

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Assi, A., Skalli, W., Ghanem, I. (2016). Next-Generation Models Using Optimized Joint Center Location. In: Müller, B., et al. Handbook of Human Motion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30808-1_27-1

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