Posture recognition in HINE exercises

Abstract

Pattern recognition, image and video processing based automatic or semi-automatic methodologies are widely used in healthcare services. Especially, image and video guided systems have successfully replaced various medical processes including physical examinations of the patients, analyzing physiological and bio-mechanical parameters, etc. Such systems are becoming popular because of their robustness and acceptability amongst the healthcare community. In this paper, we present an efficient way of infant�s posture recognition in a given video sequence of Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examinations (HINE). Our proposed methodology can be considered as a step forward in the process of automating HINE tests through computer assisted tools. We have tested our methodology with a large set of HINE videos recorded at the neuro-development clinic of hospital. It has been found that the proposed methodology can successfully classify the postures of infants with an accuracy of 78.26 %. � Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017.