Introductions!

[dblana]

🌟 Welcome! 🌟

What's your name, and where are you from? When did your interest in movement analysis start? Are you an experienced coder, interested in learning, somewhere in between, or none of the above?

Leave a comment below and tell us a bit about yourself, anything you like!

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[dblana]

I'll start: my name is Dimitra, I am originally from Greece and I now live in the UK. I am a biomedical engineer, interested in modelling the musculoskeletal system to study movement disorders.
💞 I love to code 💞
I have quite a lot of code in Matlab, that I would like to convert to Python (see also #10). I'm excited about the CMAS open-code project and I hope to get the movement analysis community excited too! 😃

[aaa34169]

I follow Dimitra.
So, my name is Fabien Leboeuf,
I am french, i was enrolled by Pr Richard Baker ( university of Salford, UK) for implementing the Conventional Gait Model 2 in collaboration with Vicon in 2015.
The Vicon Plugin gait has no secret for me since i replicated it in Python.
By the past, i also contributed to the Biomechanical Toolkit library (Btk).
I am convinced by Code Sharing and Strenght of a community for investigating Clinical Gait Analysis. :-)

[ottagit]

@aaa34169 glad to learn of your interest in contributing to this project. Many thanks!!

[npostans]

My name is Neil, I am a clinical engineer working in a gait laboratory (ORLAU, RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry UK). I write inelegant code in Python! I have some simple bits of code that use the Vicon Nexus Python SDK that could be useful for other Vicon users. These could be extended and improved upon, e.g. to use Btk. I think the CMAS open-code project is going to be a great way to improve my coding skills, share tools and build a vibrant community that can solve problems together.

[dblana]

Thank you Neil for being our first contributor! 🎉

[SjoerdBruijn]

Hi All, Sjoerd Bruijn, VU Amsterdam, Human Movement Scientist here. Like to code, mostly Matlab, but thinking about switching to something more open. Don't quite like Python (hate the fact that you need a library for simpla maths already... but maybe thats because I'm too used to Matlab), tend towards Julia (which has less of the stuff I dislike about Python anyone else tried Julia? ) Most of my code is gait stability related, although we also have developed quite the toolkit for 3d kinematics and kinetics (but I need to convince people to make this publicly available). Let me know if you want to know more about me..

[tjenks4]

Hello everyone, my name is Tom, I'm a Clinical Scientist in the Gait Laboratory at Queen Mary's Hospital (Roehampton). I saw Dimitra's presentation at CMAS and think this project is an excellent idea. Currently I use VBA to write (messy) scripts for electronic data collection in gait sessions but have used Matlab a lot in the past. I'm keen to do more coding and develop my skills and would be happy to share anything that the community might find useful.

[dblana]

Welcome Tom! 🎉

It's great to see our community growing. If you have suggestions for content, code you are considering sharing or would like help with, let us know with a new or existing issue, or on Slack!*

If you are available some time during May 20-24, that will be a good time to interact and contribute to the project, as we are participating in the Mozilla Sprint for Internet Health which means there will be a prize for the ⭐ star contributor ⭐

*Slack is also for general chatting about anything related or not related to movement analysis 😃

[mtelliottIDH]

Hi everyone, I'm Mark Elliott, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Digital Healthcare, WMG, University of Warwick in the UK. I am interested in a number of aspects of movement analysis. I am also theme lead for data analytics in the OATech Network (https://www.oatechnetwork.org/), where we are currently investigating opportunities on how to combine data across groups and disciplines in osteoarthritis research to allow data driven analyses and modelling. As part of this we are looking specifically at the feasibility of developing tools that will allow multiple 3D motion capture gait analysis datasets to be combined from different groups to develop much larger datasets that could be used for machine learning and modelling. Get in touch if you wish to find out more or you are able to share anonymised gait datasets for this project.

The CMAS open code project sounds a great initiative towards achieving this goal - thanks for setting it up!

[dblana]

Hi Mark, welcome!! ❇️

Combining movement analysis data sets for machine learning is a great goal (and I am very interested in this myself). The Mobilize Center (based in Stanford) are working on something similar - I know them quite well and they are very supportive of the CMAS open code project.

What sort of code could we develop to support this? Anonymising C3D files would definitely help... If you think of anything else (e.g. convert data to a particular format?) you could create a new issue, and the community could work on it 😃

Next week May 20-24 is a great time to interact with others on this project, as we are participating in the Mozilla Sprint for Internet Health. If you or people you work with would like to discuss ways to work together, join us here or on Slack!

[carolinestewart]

Hi, I'm Caroline. Like Neil I work in ORLAU at the RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry (UK). I am a clinical engineer and also hold an academic post at Keele University. I'm keen to work with code (both using it and writing it). I struggle to get the time I need to get stuck in to coding so I'm also interested in what we can share. I think this platform has great potential to assist in clinical services and research.

[martin-kerr]

Hi! I'm Martin, Clinical Scientist at the Derby gait lab. We collect our 3d data using a BTS system but all our processing is done in Visual 3d. My coding experience is largely through building and editing modelling and pipeline processing scripts for this over the last 10 years. It's also been very useful for processing of the data required for CMAS QA tests.

We also manage and maintain our patient database in MS access so I've learned bits and pieces of coding from adding in features to the database over time.

I'm not sure how many other labs use Visual 3D extensively but I'd be very interested to make contact with those who do and maybe we can exchange ideas.