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Newest Update:
01/2024: SynapTrack Project Started.
03/2024: Setup all the backend
05/2024: Lab version App ready
06/2024: Patient Recruiting
07/2024: Lab Data Collection Started.
11/2024: We are moving towards at-home test version.
Lab Website:
What is SynapTrack?
A smartphone application for precision assessments of degenerative cervical myelopathy.
Why this matters?
Symptom of degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM)
- Pain or stiffness in the neck
- Clumsy or weak hands
- Loss of balance
- Unsteady Gait
- Impaired gait/balance
- Hand Weakness
- Hand Sensory loss
- Stiff or weak legs
However, DCM is commonly underdiagnosed.
MRI scans are the primary & preferred diagnostic method.
Surgery might be needed in some cases.
Our Task
Traditional work uses gait mat to collect patients walking data with analysis. This can only be done in the Lab:
Instead, we wish to use the mobile phone so that it would be universal to people (using accelerometers in the mobile app):
Task
We will do a comprehensive evaluation through multiple dimensions: from dexterity tests to walking/stability tests:
Future Interests
I am actively exploring gait analysis w/ Computer Vision in this field. My goal is to learn pathological/abnormal gait through people’s walking videos.
