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With smartphone videos, clinicians can analyze human movement using open source "OpenCap" platform, 25x faster and at a fraction of the cost of labs

10.19.23 | PLOS

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With smartphone videos, clinicians can analyze human movement using open source "OpenCap" platform, 25x faster and at a fraction of the cost of labs.

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.101XXXX

Article Title: OpenCap: Human movement dynamics from smartphone videos

Author Countries : US

Funding: SDU, AF, LK, JM, ASC, JLH, and SLD were supported by the National Institutes of Health (https://www.nih.gov; grant 1P41EB027060-01A1) and the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance (https://humanperformancealliance.org). ASC and MK were supported by Philips Healthcare (https://www.usa.philips.com/healthcare) and the National Institutes of Health (https://www.nih.gov; grant 1R01AR077604-01). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS Computational Biology

10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011462

OpenCap: Human movement dynamics from smartphone videos

19-Oct-2023

Competing Interests: I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: SDU and AF are co-founders of Model Health, Inc., which supports the non-academic, commercial use of the open-source software described here. OpenCap, the cloud-deployed academic version of this open-source software is hosted at Stanford University and will remain freely available to the academic research community for the foreseeable future. No other authors have competing interests to declare.

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Charlotte Bhaskar
PLOS
ploscompbiolpress@plos.org
Jill Wu
Stanford University
jillwu@stanford.edu

How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2023, October 19). With smartphone videos, clinicians can analyze human movement using open source "OpenCap" platform, 25x faster and at a fraction of the cost of labs. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/12DWZ6Y1/with-smartphone-videos-clinicians-can-analyze-human-movement-using-open-source-opencap-platform-25x-faster-and-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost-of-labs.html
MLA:
"With smartphone videos, clinicians can analyze human movement using open source "OpenCap" platform, 25x faster and at a fraction of the cost of labs." Brightsurf News, Oct. 19 2023, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/12DWZ6Y1/with-smartphone-videos-clinicians-can-analyze-human-movement-using-open-source-opencap-platform-25x-faster-and-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost-of-labs.html.