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Researchers 'kinect' Data to Make Faster Diagnoses
University of Minnesota graduate research assistant Joshua Fasching demonstrates how the Xbox Kinect system works.
Credit: Anthony Kwan / Minnesota Daily
University of Minnesota researchers are using an Xbox Kinect as a part of a medical tool that produces diagnoses of mental disorders in small children, including obsessive-compulsive disorder and attention deficit disorder.
The video-monitoring system consists of several Kinect cameras mounted around a small room, which unobtrusively captures footage of a child playing with toys. The footage is sorted into data using open source software, and manipulated to the demands of the researchers and doctors. The system can enable doctors to receive simplified data that can help with diagnoses, says Minnesota professor Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos.
"We have found a common language between behavioral, clinical, and engineering data," says project manager Vassilios Morellas.
From Minnesota Daily
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