Alberto Ferrari

Dr. Alberto Ferrari


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Academic Career Length

21Years (2006-Present)

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

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1 August 2008 in Gait & Posture
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AFAlberto Ferrari
Alberto Ferrari
MBMaria Grazia Benedetti
Maria Grazia Benedetti
EPEsteban Pavan
Esteban Pavan
Carlo Albino FrigoCarlo Albino Frigo
Carlo Albino Frigo
DBDario Bettinelli
Dario Bettinelli
Alberto LeardiniAlberto Leardini
Alberto Leardini

1 January 2016 in Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
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Pieter GinisPieter Ginis
Pieter Ginis
ANAlice Nieuwboer
Alice Nieuwboer
MDMoran Dorfman
Moran Dorfman
AFAlberto Ferrari
Alberto Ferrari
EGEran Gazit
Eran Gazit
AMAnat Mirelman
Anat Mirelman

13 November 2009 in Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
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ACAndrea Giovanni Cutti
Andrea Giovanni Cutti
AFAlberto Ferrari
Alberto Ferrari
PGPietro Garofalo
Pietro Garofalo
MRMichele Raggi
Michele Raggi
ACAngelo Cappello
Angelo Cappello
AFAdriano Ferrari
Adriano Ferrari

13 November 2009 in Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
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AFAlberto Ferrari
Alberto Ferrari
ACAndrea Giovanni Cutti
Andrea Giovanni Cutti
PGPietro Garofalo
Pietro Garofalo
MRMichele Raggi
Michele Raggi
MHMonique Heijboer
Monique Heijboer
ADAngelo Davalli
Angelo Davalli

1 April 2010 in Gait & Posture
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AFAlberto Ferrari
Alberto Ferrari
ACAndrea Giovanni Cutti
Andrea Giovanni Cutti
ACAngelo Cappello
Angelo Cappello

28 March 2014 in Sensors
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FCFilippo Casamassima
Filippo Casamassima
AFAlberto Ferrari
Alberto Ferrari
BMBojan Milosevic
Bojan Milosevic
Pieter GinisPieter Ginis
Pieter Ginis
EFElisabetta Farella
Elisabetta Farella
LRLaura Rocchi
Laura Rocchi
In this paper, a system for gait training and rehabilitation for Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients in a daily life setting is presented. It is based on a wearable architecture aimed at the provision of real-time auditory feedback. Recent studies have, in fact, shown that PD patients can receive benefit from a motor therapy based on auditory cueing and feedback, as happens in traditional rehabilitation contexts with verbal instructions given by clinical operators. To this extent, a system based on a wireless body sensor network and a smartphone has been developed. The system enables real-time extraction of gait spatio-temporal features and their comparison with a patient’s reference walking parameters captured in the lab under clinical operator supervision. Feedback is returned to the user in form of vocal messages, encouraging the user to keep her/his walking behavior or to correct it. This paper describes the overall concept, the proposed usage scenario and the parameters estimated for the gait analysis. It also presents, in detail, the hardware-software architecture of the system and the evaluation of system reliability by testing it on a few subjects.