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ArticleJournal of imaging2026

A Method for Human Pose Estimation and Joint Angle Computation Through Deep Learning.

Ludovica Ciardiello, Patrizia Agnello, Marta Petyx, Fabio Martinelli, Mario Cesarelli, Antonella Santone, Francesco Mercaldo

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Ludovica CiardielloDepartment of Medicine and Health Sciences "Vincenzo Tiberio", University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy.
Patrizia AgnelloIstituto Nazionale per l'Assicurazione Contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro, 00144 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0009-0007-0130-8727
Marta PetyxIstituto Nazionale per l'Assicurazione Contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro, 00144 Roma, Italy.
Fabio MartinelliInstitute for High Performance Computing and Networking, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), 87036 Rende, Italy.
Mario CesarelliDepartment of Engineering, University of Sannio, 82100 Benevento, Italy.
Antonella SantoneDepartment of Medicine and Health Sciences "Vincenzo Tiberio", University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy.
Francesco MercaldoDepartment of Medicine and Health Sciences "Vincenzo Tiberio", University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9425-1657

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NextGenerationEU projects, e-DAI (Digital ecosystem for integrated analysis of heterogeneous health data related to high-impact diseases: innovative model of care and research), Health Operational Plan, FSC 2014-2020, PRIN-MUR-Ministry of Health, the  Nat CUP: D33B22000060001
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Abstract

Human pose estimation is a crucial task in computer vision with widespread applications in healthcare, rehabilitation, sports, and remote monitoring. In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based method for automatic human pose estimation and joint angle computation, tailored specifically for physiotherapy and telemedicine scenarios. Beyond pose estimation, the proposed method is able to compute angles between joints, enabling analysis of body alignment and posture. The proposed approach is built upon a customized skeleton with 25 anatomical keypoints and a dataset composed of over 150,000 annotated and augmented images derived from multiple open-source datasets. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, achieving a mAP@50 of 0.58 for keypoint localization and 0.98 for object detection. Moreover, we demonstrate several real-world practical use cases in evaluating exercise correctness and identifying postural deviations by exploiting the proposed method, confirming that the proposed method can represent a promising approach for automated motion analysis, with potential impact on digital health, rehabilitation support, and remote patient care.

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angle computationartificial intelligencedeep learningHPEhuman pose estimationobject detection

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PMID42042500
PMCPMC13118140

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