Publications by authors named "Issam Boukhennoufa"

Joint moment measurements represent an objective biomechemical parameter in joint health assessment. Inverse dynamics based on 3D motion capture data is the current 'gold standard' to estimate joint moments. Recently, machine learning combined with data measured by wearable technologies such electromyography (EMG), inertial measurement units (IMU), and electrogoniometers (GON) has been used to enable fast, easy, and low-cost measurements of joint moments.

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Gait analysis plays an important role in the fields of healthcare and sports sciences. Conventional gait analysis relies on costly equipment such as optical motion capture cameras and wearable sensors, some of which require trained assessors for data collection and processing. With the recent developments in computer vision and deep neural networks, using monocular RGB cameras for 3D human pose estimation has shown tremendous promise as a cost-effective and efficient solution for clinical gait analysis.

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The application of machine learning-based tele-rehabilitation faces the challenge of limited availability of data. To overcome this challenge, data augmentation techniques are commonly employed to generate synthetic data that reflect the configurations of real data. One such promising data augmentation technique is the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN).

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Knee joint moments are commonly calculated to provide an indirect measure of knee joint loads. A shortcoming of inverse dynamics approaches is that the process of collecting and processing human motion data can be time-consuming. This study aimed to benchmark five different deep learning methods in using walking segment kinematics for predicting internal knee abduction impulse during walking.

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The recent COVID-19 pandemic has further high-lighted the need for improving tele-rehabilitation systems. One of the common methods is to use wearable sensors for monitoring patients and intelligent algorithms for accurate and objective assessments. An important part of this work is to develop an efficient evaluation algorithm that provides a high-precision activity recognition rate.

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Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have been applied to various fields such as manufacturing, automobile industry and healthcare. IoT-based healthcare has a significant impact on real-time remote monitoring of patients' health and consequently improving treatments and reducing healthcare costs. In fact, IoT has made healthcare more reliable, efficient, and accessible.

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