作者: Jason J. Liu , Ming-Chun Huang , Wenyao Xu , Majid Sarrafzadeh
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943703
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摘要: Pressure ulcers, commonly called bedsores, are defined as injuries to the skin and underlying tissue resulting from prolonged pressure usually on bony areas of body, such heels hips. In order alleviate accumulation at high-risk regions, current practice in clinics requires caregivers reposition their patients every two hours. This relies engagement nursing services places large burdens caregivers. this study, a bedsore monitoring method using Pictorial Structure models is introduced localize distributions body. A pilot study including 12 subjects reveals that proposed enables reliable localization bodyparts with 89.8% accuracy common lying postures.