Main description:

The topic of this book is the modeling of data uncertainty and knowledge for a health engineering problem such as the biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system. This is the first book on this subject. It begins with the state of the art in related topics such as data uncertainty, knowledge modeling, and the biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system, followed by fundamental and theoretical aspects of this field. Clinically relevant applications of musculoskeletal system modeling are then introduced. The book finishes with a chapter on practical software and tools for knowledge modeling and reasoning purposes.

Contents:

Preface ix Chapter 1 Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System 1 1.1 Biomechanics and its applications 1 1.2 Biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system: current knowledge 5 1.3 Challenges and perspectives of rigid multi-body musculoskeletal models 26 1.4 Summary 26 1.5 Bibliography 30 Chapter 2 Modeling of Biomechanical Data Uncertainty 37 2.1 Introduction of biomechanical data and their uncertainties 37 2.2 Biomechanical data uncertainty modeling 49 2.3 Biomechanical data uncertainty propagation 62 2.4 Conclusions and perspectives 69 2.5 Summary 70 2.6 Bibliography 71 Chapter 3 Knowledge Modeling in Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System 75 3.1 Knowledge modeling in Biomechanics 75 3.2 Knowledge representation 77 3.3 Knowledge reasoning 79 3.4 Conventional and advanced knowledge discovery methods 80 3.5 CDS system 91 3.6 Conclusions 97 3.7 Summary 98 3.8 Bibliography 98 Chapter 4 Clinical Applications of Biomechanical and Knowledge-Based Models 103 4.1 Patient-specific musculoskeletal model: effect of the orthosis 103 4.2 Computational musculoskeletal ontological model 117 4.3 Predictive models of the pathologies of the lower limbs 130 4.4 Conclusions 136 4.5 Summary 137 4.6 Bibliography 137 Chapter 5 Software and Tools for Knowledge Modeling and Reasoning/Inference 143 5.1 Open source and Commercial knowledge modeling software and tools 143 5.2 Protege: ontology editor and knowledge-based framework 145 5.3 JESS: reasoning and inference library 148 5.4 Conclusion 150 5.5 Summary 150 5.6 Bibliography 151 Index 153