Citation

Xingcheng Cai, Blostein D, Saunders FW. Conf. Proc. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. 2015; 2015: 4615-4618.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers))

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319422

PMID

26737322

Abstract

Helmets are widely used as protection against sports-related concussions. The degree of concussion protection offered by a helmet may be related to the fit between the helmet and head. This paper presents the design of a prototype helmet fitting recommendation system using shape-based helmet fitting. The shape-based helmet fitting system uses a Kinect sensor to scan a client's head and then compares the head shape to helmet shapes from a database of off-the-shelf helmets. A slice extraction method is used to compare a standard reference slice extracted from the head to a corresponding slice from the helmet. The degree to which the helmet fits the client's head is calculated and displayed to the user. The prototype system could potentially help a concussion expert make recommendations about helmet fit to clients, if more research about the effects of helmet fitting on concussion protection becomes available.

Language: en