Document Type
Article
Original Publication Date
2017
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Volume
2017
DOI of Original Publication
10.1155/2017/3602928
Date of Submission
June 2017
Abstract
Computational models are useful tools to study the biomechanics of human joints. Their predictive performance is heavily dependent on bony anatomy and soft tissue properties. Imaging data provides anatomical requirements while approximate tissue properties are implemented from literature data, when available. We sought to improve the predictive capability of a computational foot/ankle model by optimizing its ligament stiffness inputs using feedforward and radial basis function neural networks. While the former demonstrated better performance than the latter per mean square error, both networks provided reasonable stiffness predictions for implementation into the computational model.
Rights
Copyright © 2017 Ruchi D. Chande et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Is Part Of
VCU Biomedical Engineering Publications
Comments
Originally published at https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/3602928