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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Counting Finger and Wrist Movements Using Only a Wrist-Worn, Inertial Measurement Unit: Toward Practical Wearable Sensing for Hand-Related Healthcare Applications.

Shusuke Okita, Roman Yakunin, Jathin Korrapati, Mina Ibrahim, Diogo Schwerz de Lucena, Vicky Chan, David J Reinkensmeyer

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Advancing Wearable-Based Upper-Limb Stroke Recovery Assessment to the Clinic: A Comparison of Movement Segmentation Strategies.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Shusuke OkitaDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8041-9220
Roman YakuninCollege of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Jathin KorrapatiDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Mina IbrahimDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
Diogo Schwerz de LucenaAE Studio, Venice, CA 90291, USA.
Vicky ChanRehabilitation Services, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
David J ReinkensmeyerDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3196-8706
University of California, Irvine · USGeorgia Institute of Technology · USMinistry of Education · BRUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Rehabilitation Robotics, National Institutes of Health grants 90REGE0005, R44HD086953, R01HD062744
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability to count finger and wrist movements throughout the day with a nonobtrusive, wearable sensor could be useful for hand-related healthcare applications, including rehabilitation after a stroke, carpal tunnel syndrome, or hand surgery. Previous approaches have required the user to wear a ring with an embedded magnet or inertial measurement unit (IMU). Here, we demonstrate that it is possible to identify the occurrence of finger and wrist flexion/extension movements based on vibrations detected by a wrist-worn IMU. We developed an approach we call "Hand Activity Recognition through using a Convolutional neural network with Spectrograms" (HARCS) that trains a CNN based on the velocity/acceleration spectrograms that finger/wrist movements create. We validated HARCS with the wrist-worn IMU recordings obtained from twenty stroke survivors during their daily life, where the occurrence of finger/wrist movements was labeled using a previously validated algorithm called HAND using magnetic sensing. The daily number of finger/wrist movements identified by HARCS had a strong positive correlation to the daily number identified by HAND (R

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StrokeWearable Electronic DevicesDelivery of Health CareHumansMovementUpper ExtremityWristconvolutional neural network (CNN)human activity recognition (HAR)motion capture system (MC)neural networkrehabilitationstrokethe inertial measurement unit (IMU)wearable sensing

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PMID37420857
PMCPMC10300978
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