Scoliosis screening using depth camera

Abstract

Scoliosis is a three-dimensional deformity of the spine that occur a deviation from the normal axis. An early detection and treatment are necessary for increasing an efficiency of correction and reducing an effect. There are many primary screening methods such as the body shape measurement. This paper suggests a screening method by using Kinect camera that can collect the point of joints of a human body. Those points are used to calculate for finding values that can define the balance of the body. Those values are shoulder asymmetric, shoulder length difference, shoulder angle difference, waist asymmetric, waist length difference, waist angle difference, the angle between shoulder and reference line, the angle between waist and reference line and the angle between the shoulder and waist line.