(May 7, 2019) - As the CAD WALK project enters its homestretch, we are beginning to take the project public. Last month, we presented our plantar pressure datasets at the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) in Venice, Italy. Today, we announce additional public events that CAD WALK will be involved with.
imec FutureSummits 2019: Next week in Antwerp, Belgium, CAD WALK will participate in the imec FutureSummits Technology Forum. As part of our promotion for the event, we filmed a video invitation with imec. You can see that video in the tweet to your right. I hope you can make it to the event. It will be a great opportunity to talk with us about CAD WALK and its future.CAD walk provides a solution for foot pain. Discover their demo & 55 others at the demo floor of #FutureSummits (May 14-15, Antwerp). https://t.co/zCJxrnnhaF pic.twitter.com/HSz3yyi5V4
— imec (@imec_int) April 19, 2019
Footwear Biomechanics Symposium 2019 CAD WALK will also be participating in this summer's Footwear Biomechanics Symposium, July 28-30, in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. As part of the program, we will present work on the automation of custom shoe design: A Machine Learning Approach to the Design of Customized Shoe Lasts. This work was part of our group's previous FootWork project where the focus was in standardizing and speeding up the manufacturing of foot orthoses. In addition to appearing at FSB, this work was also selected for publication in the journal Footwear Science, so keep an eye out for that.
ISB/ASB Congress, 2019 Finally, CAD WALK will also be participating in the 2019 Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB), held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB) from July 31st to August 4th in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. As part of the meeting, we will be presenting work that combines our plantar pressure video analysis with the hallux valgus dataset we recently published. The work is entitled Assessing Group Differences between Hallux Valgus Patients and Healthy Controls using Statistical Parametric Mapping. CAD WALK will expand on this work by assessing plantar pressure differences between an individual and a group of healthy controls, as opposed to looking at only the differences present between the two groups as a whole.
Up Next in May-June 2019...
We hope to announce soon a IP licensing agreement between CAD WALK and project partner
rs scan. Once the announcement is made, we will begin
converting our CAD WALK prototype into a commercial software module that operates with rs scan's
footscan system. We will also continue with publications and presentations as the project winds up.
Our FSB Abstract "A Machine Learning Approach to
the Design of Customized Shoe Lasts"
Our ISB/ASB Abstract "Assessing Group Differences
between Hallux Valgus Patients and Healthy Controls using Statistical Parametric Mapping"
