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Scoring People With Spinal Muscular Atrophy on the Motor Function Measure Using the Microsoft Kinect
Dominique Vincent-Genod1, Pascal Rippert, Justine Coton
1Service de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation Pédiatrique l'Escale (Mss Vincent-Genod, Barriere, Berruyer, Bernard, Garde, and Gutierrez-Garcia and Drs Le Goff and Vuillerot), Hôpital Femme-Mère-Enfant, Hospices Civils de Lyon, France; Pôle Santé Publique (Dr Rippert), Service Recherche Epidémiologie Cliniques, Hospices Civils de Lyon, France; Univ. Grenoble Alpes (Drs Coton, Gomes-Lisboade-Souza, and Thomann), CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institute of Engineering Univ. Grenoble Alpes, G-SCOP, Grenoble, France; Centre de Référence des Maladies Neuromusculaires (Ms Barriere), Hôpital de la Croix Rousse, Hospices Civils de Lyon, France; Institut de Myologie (Ms Gilabert and Dr Servais), GH Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France; Centre de Référence des Maladies Neuromusculaires (Drs Daron and Servais), CHU de Liège, Belgium; Université de Lyon (Dr Vuillerot), and CNRS UMR 5310-INSERM U1217, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France.
Purpose:
Assess the ability of the Kinect to capture movement and posture of people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) during completion of 14 items of the Motor Function Measure, a validated functional rating scale for people with neuromuscular diseases.
Methods:
Multicenter feasibility study in which Motor Function Measure items were scored as usual by the participant's therapist during the completion (Score-T) while another therapist scored items based only on the visualization of digital data collected using the Kinect (Score-D). Agreement and disagreement were investigated.
Results:
Twenty people with SMA type 2 or 3 were participants; 142 items were recorded and analyzed. There was 31.7% agreement between Score-T and Score-D for participants with SMA type 2, and 76.2% for those with SMA type 3.
Conclusions:
The results prevent us from considering the use of Kinect capture to deduce an automated scoring, but this device may be of interest to highlight potential compensations.
