Soft tissue artefact (STA) affects the kinematics retrieved with skin marker-based motion capture, and thus influences the outcomes of biomechanical models that rely on such kinematics. To date, compensation for STA remains an unsolved challenge due to its complexity. Factors include its dependency on subject, on motion activity and on skin-marker configuration, its non-linearity over the movement cycle, and the scarcity of reference in-vivo estimations. The objective of this study was extending the existing knowledge of the effects of STA on the kinematics of the hip joint and on the hip joint center location, by quantifying them for a sample total hip arthroplasty (THA) population, for a broader range of activities of daily living (ADLs). Four activities of daily living (overground gait, stairs descent, chair rise and putting on socks) were measured simultaneously with optical motion capture (MC) at 100 Hz and with a movable single-plane video-fluoroscopy system (VF) at 25 Hz, for fifteen patients with successful total hip arthroplasty (THA). The joint segment positions were computed by least-square fitting for MC and by semi-automatic 2D/3D registration for VF. Anatomical coordinate systems were defined for each joint segment based on skin markers location at a reference standing position. Errors induced by STA on the retrieved joint motion were computed as the difference between MC-based kinematics and the reference VF-based kinematics. Statistical analysis was carried out to determine the whether the differences between the kinematics obtained with the two methods were significant.Introduction
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