An M-Health Algorithmic Approach to Identify and Assess Physiotherapy Exercises in Real Time

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Main Authors: Kandylakis, Stylianos, Orfanopoulos, Christos, Siolas, Georgios, Tsanakas, Panayiotis
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Published: 2025
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author Kandylakis, Stylianos
Orfanopoulos, Christos
Siolas, Georgios
Tsanakas, Panayiotis
author_facet Kandylakis, Stylianos
Orfanopoulos, Christos
Siolas, Georgios
Tsanakas, Panayiotis
contents This work presents an efficient algorithmic framework for real-time identification, classification, and evaluation of human physiotherapy exercises using mobile devices. The proposed method interprets a kinetic movement as a sequence of static poses, which are estimated from camera input using a pose-estimation neural network. Extracted body keypoints are transformed into trigonometric angle-based features and classified with lightweight supervised models to generate frame-level pose predictions and accuracy scores. To recognize full exercise movements and detect deviations from prescribed patterns, we employ a dynamic-programming scheme based on a modified Levenshtein distance algorithm, enabling robust sequence matching and localization of inaccuracies. The system operates entirely on the client side, ensuring scalability and real-time performance. Experimental evaluation demonstrates the effectiveness of the methodology and highlights its applicability to remote physiotherapy supervision and m-health applications.
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spellingShingle An M-Health Algorithmic Approach to Identify and Assess Physiotherapy Exercises in Real Time
Kandylakis, Stylianos
Orfanopoulos, Christos
Siolas, Georgios
Tsanakas, Panayiotis
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
68T45, 68T10
I.2.10; I.5.4
This work presents an efficient algorithmic framework for real-time identification, classification, and evaluation of human physiotherapy exercises using mobile devices. The proposed method interprets a kinetic movement as a sequence of static poses, which are estimated from camera input using a pose-estimation neural network. Extracted body keypoints are transformed into trigonometric angle-based features and classified with lightweight supervised models to generate frame-level pose predictions and accuracy scores. To recognize full exercise movements and detect deviations from prescribed patterns, we employ a dynamic-programming scheme based on a modified Levenshtein distance algorithm, enabling robust sequence matching and localization of inaccuracies. The system operates entirely on the client side, ensuring scalability and real-time performance. Experimental evaluation demonstrates the effectiveness of the methodology and highlights its applicability to remote physiotherapy supervision and m-health applications.
title An M-Health Algorithmic Approach to Identify and Assess Physiotherapy Exercises in Real Time
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
68T45, 68T10
I.2.10; I.5.4
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10437