Georgios Papagiannis, Αthanasios Triantafyllou, Konstantina G Yiannopoulou, George Georgoudis, Maria Kyriakidou, Panagiotis Gkrilias, Apostolos Z Skouras, Xhoi Bega, Dimitrios Stasinopoulos, George Matsopoulos, Pantelis Syringas, Nikolaos Tselikas, Orestis Zestas, Vassiliki Potsika, Athanasios Pardalis, Christoforos Papaioannou, Vasilios Protopappas, Nikolas Malizos, Nikolaos Tachos, Dimitrios I Fotiadis
A popular and widely suggested measure for assessing unilateral hand motor skills in stroke patients is the box and block test (BBT). Our study aimed to create an augmented reality enhanced version of the BBT (AR-BBT) and evaluate its correlation to the original BBT for stroke patients. Following G-power analysis, clinical examination, and inclusion-exclusion criteria, 31 stroke patients were included in this study. AR-BBT was developed using the Open Source Computer Vision Library (OpenCV). The MediaPipe's hand tracking library uses a palm and a hand landmark machine learning model to detect and track hands...
May 8, 2024: Scientific Reports