ADAPTIVE AE TECHNIQUE FOR THE INTEGRITY ANALYSIS OF KNEE JOINT

Adaptive integrity analysis of knee joint involves a detail study of anatomical parts of knee joint such as bones, cartilage, tendons etc. involving statistical and geometrical approaches for its correctness or wholeness in sound workability. The disorderness or damage of these anatomical parts causes several knee diseases, such as knee osteoarthritis (OA). The predominance of this disease mainly outbreaks in aging society due to damages in cartilage with increasing ages or some early unidentified knee injuries. In the present paper, adaptive acoustic emission (AE) technique has been applied for evaluating the disorderness of knee joint. The major objective of the present research is to early identify the damage initiation of cartilage so that the early preventive measure can be adopted for avoiding knee OA. Therefore, the present investigation focuses on the dynamical behavioral characterization of knee joint for its integrity analysis with AE based non-destructive imaging conditions. AE signals have been collected from different positions of tibia, patella, and femur for getting sufficient information about the condition of cartilage of knee joint. The result has been discussed and showed significant as a biomarker in knee condition analysis for preventing major knee diseases.