Assessment of human gait after total knee arthroplasty by dynamic time
warping algorithm
Abstract
Today, the elderly population is increasing and they endure many
drawbacks, especially defects in their knee joints which lead to
improper gait. To solve this problem, their knee joint can be replaced
with knee arthroplasty. In this letter, the level of improvement in the
human gait before and after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgery is
investigated using the Dynamic Time Wrapping (DTW) algorithm. For this
purpose, several volunteers who have problems with their knees
incorporate in a test before and after TKA surgery, and data of gait
analysis is collected. Then, the obtained data is compared with a
reference using the DTW algorithm. The outcome results illustrate an
improvement of 89\% - 97\% by the
proposed algorithm after TKA surgery. Therefore, patients can see
improvement with high speed and accuracy that result in more promising
for using TKA surgery.