Efficacy and efficiency of multivariate linear regression for rapid prediction of femoral strain fields during activity

Quantifying femoral strain distribution is important for studying bone adaptation [1 –3], diagnosing individuals most at risk of femoral fracture [4–6], and optimizing the biomechanical behaviour of implantable devices [7,8]. Over the last few decades, finite-element analysis has been used extensively to quantify the entire femoral strain field [9–11], and there is growing int erest in using this method to characterise strain distributions in multiple individuals [12,13] and across multiple trials and tasks [14].

Source: Medical Engineering and Physics - December 11, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Authors: Hamed Ziaeipoor, Saulo Martelli, Marcus Pandy, Mark Taylor Tags: Technical note Source Type: research