Technical quality assessment of an optoelectronic
The Optoelectronic Systems (OS) are largely used in gait analysis to evaluate
the motor performances of healthy subjects and patients. The accuracy of marker trajectories
reconstruction depends on several aspects: the number of cameras, the dimension and position
of the calibration volume, and the chosen calibration procedure. In this paper we propose a
methodology to evaluate the effects of the mentioned sources of error on the reconstruction
of marker trajectories. The novel contribution of the present work consists in the dimension
of the tested calibration volumes, which is comparable with the ones normally used in gait
analysis; in addition, to simulate trajectories during clinical gait analysis, we provide non-default
paths for markers as inputs. Several calibration procedures are implemented and the same
trial is processed with each calibration file, also considering different cameras configurations.
The RMSEs between the measured trajectories and the optimal ones are calculated for each
comparison. To investigate the significant differences between the computed indices, an ANOVA
analysis is implemented. The RMSE is sensible to the variations of the considered calibration
volume and the camera configurations and it is always inferior to 43 mm.