Rita Stagni

Dr. Rita Stagni

Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi", Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy
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Academic Career Length

27Years (2000-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 March 2005 in Clinical Biomechanics
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Rita StagniRita Stagni
Rita Stagni
Silvia FantozziSilvia Fantozzi
Silvia Fantozzi
ACAngelo Cappello
Angelo Cappello
Alberto LeardiniAlberto Leardini
Alberto Leardini

1 November 2000 in Journal of Biomechanics
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Rita StagniRita Stagni
Rita Stagni
Alberto LeardiniAlberto Leardini
Alberto Leardini
ACAurelio Cappozzo
Aurelio Cappozzo
MBMaria Grazia Benedetti
Maria Grazia Benedetti
ACAngelo Cappello
Angelo Cappello

12 November 2014 in PLOS ONE
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GVGiordano Valente
Giordano Valente
LPLorenzo Pitto
Lorenzo Pitto
DTDebora Testi
Debora Testi
ASAjay Seth
Ajay Seth
SDScott L Delp
Scott L Delp
FTFulvia Taddei
Fulvia Taddei
Subject-specific musculoskeletal modeling can be applied to study musculoskeletal disorders, allowing inclusion of personalized anatomy and properties. Independent of the tools used for model creation, there are unavoidable uncertainties associated with parameter identification, whose effect on model predictions is still not fully understood. The aim of the present study was to analyze the sensitivity of subject-specific model predictions (i.e., joint angles, joint moments, muscle and joint contact forces) during walking to the uncertainties in the identification of body landmark positions, maximum muscle tension and musculotendon geometry. To this aim, we created an MRI-based musculoskeletal model of the lower limbs, defined as a 7-segment, 10-degree-of-freedom articulated linkage, actuated by 84 musculotendon units. We then performed a Monte-Carlo probabilistic analysis perturbing model parameters according to their uncertainty, and solving a typical inverse dynamics and static optimization problem using 500 models that included the different sets of perturbed variable values. Model creation and gait simulations were performed by using freely available software that we developed to standardize the process of model creation, integrate with OpenSim and create probabilistic simulations of movement. The uncertainties in input variables had a moderate effect on model predictions, as muscle and joint contact forces showed maximum standard deviation of 0.3 times body-weight and maximum range of 2.1 times body-weight. In addition, the output variables significantly correlated with few input variables (up to 7 out of 312) across the gait cycle, including the geometry definition of larger muscles and the maximum muscle tension in limited gait portions. Although we found subject-specific models not markedly sensitive to parameter identification, researchers should be aware of the model precision in relation to the intended application. In fact, force predictions could be affected by an uncertainty in the same order of magnitude of its value, although this condition has low probability to occur.


1 July 2014 in Computers in Biology and Medicine
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FRF. Riva
F. Riva
MBMaria Cristina Bisi
Maria Cristina Bisi
Rita StagniRita Stagni
Rita Stagni

1 June 2013 in Gait & Posture
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FRF. Riva
F. Riva
MTM.J.P. Toebes
M.J.P. Toebes
MPMirjam Pijnappels
Mirjam Pijnappels
Rita StagniRita Stagni
Rita Stagni
Jaap Van DieenJaap Van Dieen
Jaap Van Dieen