Detection of American football head impacts using biomechanical features and support vector machine classification - Wu LC, Kuo C, Loza J, Kurt M, Laksari K, Yanez LZ, Senif D, Anderson SC, Miller LE, Urban JE, Stitzel JD, Camarillo DB.

Accumulation of head impacts may contribute to acute and long-term brain trauma. Wearable sensors can measure impact exposure, yet current sensors do not have validated impact detection methods for accurate exposure monitoring. Here we demonstrate a head i...

Source: SafetyLit - January 16, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news