An approach to automatic assistance in physiotherapy based on on-line movement identification

Summary form only given. This paper describes a method for on-line movement identification, oriented to patient's movement evaluation during physiotherapy. An analysis based on Mahalanobis distance between temporal windows is performed to identify the "idle/motion" state, which defines the beginning and the end of the patient's movement, for posterior patterns extraction based on Relative Wavelet Energy from sequences of invariant moments.