Automatic Posture and Movement Tracking of Infants with Wearable Movement Sensors

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Sampsa Vanhatalo, professor of clinical neurophysiology at the University of Helsinki, said“The smart jumpsuit provides us with the first opportunity to quantify infants’ spontaneous and voluntary movements outside the laboratory. The child can be sent back home with the suit for the rest of the day. The next day, it will be returned to the hospital, where the results will then be processed.”

“The new analysis method quantifies infant motility as reliably as a human being would be able to do by viewing a video recording. After the measurement, the infant’s actual movements and physical positions will be known to the second, after which computational measures can be applied to the data.”

“This is a revolutionary step forward. The measurements provide a tool to detect the precise variation in motility from the age of five months, something which smart medical clothes have not been able to do until now.”

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Source: Nature