**2.11 The role of the AMSS system in anthropometry**

The primary goal of the AMSS system, especially in the context of anthropometry, is to present vector biomechanics parameters as part of a time-oriented parametric graph. It is worth recalling and emphasizing that the parametric graph contains the following:


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following:

the organism.

*Theoretical Biomechanics: Design of the Associated Measurement Symmetry System*

asymmetry indicators, recorded as the sum of parallel, parametric asymmetric

5.A contact profile of the subject's dynamic symmetry, determined using the module of biometric tests (MTB-AMSS), equipped with measuring devices having direct contact with the patient's tissues (e.g., tensometry, plethysmography, pulse oximetry, EEG, ECG, EMG, magnetometry, resistometry and resistive tomography, accelerometry, gyroscopy, assessment of the impulse perception threshold). It collects information about the functional symmetry of motion (muscle) effectors, the functional symmetry of peripheral effector control (nerves), and the functional symmetry of effector supply (blood

The multitude of parameters obtained from the AMSS system will, in the first phase, hinder the orientation, even for an experienced doctor who is not a specialist in anthropomotorics and psychomotorics. This problem can be solved by the module of artificial intelligence system SSI-AMSS which (depending on the needs) allows for the use of advanced intelligent tools to perform (a) the erosion of the information stream without the loss of significant content, (b) thematic organization of information, (c) diagnostic inference based on decision support systems (generators of hypotheses), and (d) inference based on expert systems and (e) determine the numerical size of disease progression and remission trends (resulting from the treatment). A large amount of collected data is related to the problem of its efficient processing, aimed at obtaining cross-sectional knowledge about the patient. In medical diagnosis supported with computer methods of data analysis, making the right decision is crucial as it determines the time of making diagnosis and treatment initiation and, consequently, patient's life and the costs of treatment.

Further work (modeling on the ECG cardiological standards) will aim at the medical community's interest in creating a friendly and comprehensive numerical standard of musculoskeletal system symmetry (SMSS), determining symmetry coefficients (or asymmetries) according to topographic patterns of the osteoarticular, muscular, nervous, and circulatory systems [32]. The purpose of implementing the new system is to provide a new, more universal tool that can be used to create a protocol for inter-center exchange of information. The program plan includes the

1.Improvement, unification, and typization of the marker matrix (MM), a system

2.Development of the diagnostic screening package (DSP), which is a set of optimal topographic and parametric patterns (TPP) characterizing the state of

3.Establishing a set of physiological patterns (PP) that characterize the normal state of the body and will function in the information database as a frame of reference. This data will be collected after applying the diagnostic screening package (DSP) in studies on subsequent large age groups of healthy individu-

als, thus reflecting a natural phenomenon of parametric involution.

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.92758*

vessels).

6.A system of time stamps.

**2.12 Further development plans for the AMSS system**

for electronic registering of data and software.

strings, marked with a time marker.

asymmetry indicators, recorded as the sum of parallel, parametric asymmetric strings, marked with a time marker.


*Recent Advances in Biomechanics*

as a book chapter in the United States [1].

contains the following:

quent centers.

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(motor plates), and the functioning of the muscles.

indicators [28].

of patients [6]. A very important consequence of this completely new approach to the diagnosis was making an important discovery and acquiring clinical evidence that together with asymmetric scheme of long-term physical adaptation of the organism in the course of pain syndromes, bone remodeling occurs in the twin supporting elements of the bone structure, which can be described using lateralization

A summary of the above idea was presented in 2010, in Łódź, at the 7th International Congress of the Polish Rehabilitation Society, in the form of paper entitled "A system of associated measurement symmetries as an EBM tool in standardizing the diagnosis and surveillance of the musculoskeletal system treatment," and then awarded by the Scientific Committee of the Congress. This paper contains the idea and the general modular design of associated measurement symmetry system (AMSS). This issue is discussed in more detail in two chapters of the postconference monograph [29–31]*.* Techniques of describing patient's clinical condition (taken from the SSSP system) were also used in a large clinical study, published

The primary goal of the AMSS system, especially in the context of anthropometry, is to present vector biomechanics parameters as part of a time-oriented parametric graph. It is worth recalling and emphasizing that the parametric graph

1.Subject's emotional profile, determined using survey tests (intelligence-abilities-depression) and planimetric silhouette tests (parents, family house, tree) (TA-AMSS), approximating more important features of the emotional state, which may affect the qualitative dimension of intentional movement creation.

2.A biochemical profile of the subject (MNA-AMSS), which could have a modifying influence on the qualitative selection of intentional engram of movement creation (e.g., thyroid or adrenal gland dysfunction), the functioning of the neural network in which the engram will operate, the functioning of the motor neurons and pyramidal tract, the functioning of the neuromuscular feedback

3.A profile of the subject's static structural symmetry, determined by the module of planimetric static tests PTS-AMSS, which contains a set of utility programs for automatic planimetric measurements in static radiological, scintigraphic, ultrasound, and thermographic images (mainly symmetry, distances, and angles). The application of these easy-to-use planimetric tools gives the ability to create numerical symmetry equivalents for specific pairs of markers on the images of the subject's body structures. To improve the system's functionality, measurements should be performed on a standard matrix of symmetry markers, enabling the acquisition of specific lateralization indicators and above all free, inter-center exchange of information while creating a knowledge capital about the patient, with no unnecessary duplication of procedures in subse-

4.A telemetric profile of the dynamic, contour-structural symmetry of the

subject, determined by the module of dynamic planimetric tests (PTD-AMSS), containing devices for telemetry measuring the symmetry of body movements and its anomalies, in particular enabling parametric evaluation of drift-related

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The multitude of parameters obtained from the AMSS system will, in the first phase, hinder the orientation, even for an experienced doctor who is not a specialist in anthropomotorics and psychomotorics. This problem can be solved by the module of artificial intelligence system SSI-AMSS which (depending on the needs) allows for the use of advanced intelligent tools to perform (a) the erosion of the information stream without the loss of significant content, (b) thematic organization of information, (c) diagnostic inference based on decision support systems (generators of hypotheses), and (d) inference based on expert systems and (e) determine the numerical size of disease progression and remission trends (resulting from the treatment). A large amount of collected data is related to the problem of its efficient processing, aimed at obtaining cross-sectional knowledge about the patient. In medical diagnosis supported with computer methods of data analysis, making the right decision is crucial as it determines the time of making diagnosis and treatment initiation and, consequently, patient's life and the costs of treatment.
