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Oct, 2020

Longitudinal assessment of U-shaped and inverted U-shaped developmental changes in the spontaneous movements of infants via markerless video analysis

Scientific Reports
  • Naoki Kinoshita
  • ,
  • Akira Furui
  • ,
  • Zu Soh
  • ,
  • Hideaki Hayashi
  • ,
  • Taro Shibanoki
  • ,
  • Hiroki Mori
  • ,
  • Koji Shimatani
  • ,
  • Yasuko Funabiki
  • ,
  • Toshio Tsuji

Volume
10
Number
16827
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1038/s41598-020-74006-y
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC

<title>Abstract</title>
Various attempts have been made to elucidate the development patterns in the spontaneous movements of infants through longitudinal evaluations. Movement complexity has been found to demonstrate u-shaped changes in the measurements focusing on limb movements. However, researchers have not yet clarified how other characteristics, besides movement complexity, change over time. This paper presents a longitudinal evaluation of spontaneous movements in infants using evaluation indices calculated through markerless video analysis. Nine infants with corrected ages from <inline-formula><alternatives><tex-math>$$-1$$</tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74006-y
URL
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74006-y.pdf
URL
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74006-y
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  • DOI : 10.1038/s41598-020-74006-y
  • eISSN : 2045-2322

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