Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app112412054
Keywords
kinematic data phenotype; gait analysis; healthy subjects; clustering analysis
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This study aims to identify healthy phenotypes in knee kinematics through clustering data analysis. Two data representation approaches were investigated based on joint analysis of three dimensions, with the global approach being more efficient in identifying three descriptive 3D kinematic phenotypes within a healthy knee population.
The purpose of this study is to identify healthy phenotypes in knee kinematics based on clustering data analysis. Our analysis uses the 3D knee kinematics curves, namely, flexion/extension, abduction/adduction, and tibial internal/external rotation, measured via a KneeKG (TM) system during a gait task. We investigated two data representation approaches that are based on the joint analysis of the three dimensions. The first is a global approach that is considered a concatenation of the kinematic data without any dimensionality reduction. The second is a local approach that is considered a set of 69 biomechanical parameters of interest extracted from the 3D kinematic curves. The data representations are followed by a clustering process, based on the BIRCH (balanced iterative reducing and clustering using hierarchies) discriminant model, to separate 3D knee kinematics into homogeneous groups or clusters. Phenotypes were obtained by averaging those groups. We validated the clusters using inter-cluster correlation and statistical hypothesis tests. The simulation results showed that the global approach is more efficient, and it allows the identification of three descriptive 3D kinematic phenotypes within a healthy knee population.
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