Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System

Dr. Tien Tuan DAO received the Engineer Diploma and the Master degree in Computer Science in 2005 at the University of Cantho in Vietnam and in 2006 at the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC) in France respectively. After receiving the PhD degree in Biomechanics and Bioengineering in 2009 at UTC, he pursued his research activities as a postdoctoral fellow at the same university until 2011. From 2012, he is holding a CNRS research engineer position at the UMR CNRS 7338 Biomechanics and Bioengineering Laboratory at the UTC. His research interest relates to the modeling of human osteo-articular and musculoskeletal systems using biomechanics and knowledge-based engineering approaches. Marie Christine HO BA THO is Professor in Mechanics since 1998 at UTC (Université de Technologie de Compiègne) and currently Head of Biomechanics and Bioengineering Laboratory associated with CNRS (Centre National de Rercherches Scientifiques).

Preface ix

Chapter 1 Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System 1

1.1 Biomechanics and its applications 1

1.2 Biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system: current knowledge 5

1.3 Challenges and perspectives of rigid multi-body musculoskeletal models 26

1.4 Summary 26

1.5 Bibliography 30

Chapter 2 Modeling of Biomechanical Data Uncertainty 37

2.1 Introduction of biomechanical data and their uncertainties 37

2.2 Biomechanical data uncertainty modeling 49

2.3 Biomechanical data uncertainty propagation 62

2.4 Conclusions and perspectives 69

2.5 Summary 70

2.6 Bibliography 71

Chapter 3 Knowledge Modeling in Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System 75

3.1 Knowledge modeling in Biomechanics 75

3.2 Knowledge representation 77

3.3 Knowledge reasoning 79

3.4 Conventional and advanced knowledge discovery methods 80

3.5 CDS system 91

3.6 Conclusions 97

3.7 Summary 98

3.8 Bibliography 98

Chapter 4 Clinical Applications of Biomechanical and Knowledge-Based Models 103

4.1 Patient-specific musculoskeletal model: effect of the orthosis 103

4.2 Computational musculoskeletal ontological model 117

4.3 Predictive models of the pathologies of the lower limbs 130

4.4 Conclusions 136

4.5 Summary 137

4.6 Bibliography 137

Chapter 5 Software and Tools for Knowledge Modeling and Reasoning/Inference 143

5.1 Open source and Commercial knowledge modeling software and tools 143

5.2 Protégé: ontology editor and knowledge-based framework 145

5.3 JESS: reasoning and inference library 148

5.4 Conclusion 150

5.5 Summary 150

5.6 Bibliography 151

Index 153