System and methods for gait analysis and longitudinal health and aging assessments including musculoskeletal disorders using video-trained spatio-temporal graph neural networks

Abstract

A method for pose and gait classification and motion prediction using spatio-temporal relationships between body joints includes capturing a sequence of images or video frames of a subject; applying a neural network-based pose estimation algorithm to the sequence of images or video frames to detect landmark positions of anatomical joints; constructing a spatio-temporal graph from the detected landmark positions of the one or more anatomical joints, wherein nodes of the spatio-temporal graph correspond to the anatomical joints and the landmark positions, spatial edges of the spatio-temporal graph represent anatomical connections between the anatomical joints within a single image or frame, and temporal edges connect the one or more anatomical joints across successive images or frames of the sequence of images or video frames; and inputting the constructed spatio-temporal graph into a spatio-temporal graph convolutional network (ST-GCN) to classify pose and gait patterns and predict motion or stability states.