Dhouha MAATAR

Work place: Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC). Laboratoire Images Signaux et Systèmes Intelligents (LiSSi) Ecole National des Ingénieurs de Tunis (ENIT), Tunisie

E-mail: doha.maatar@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Pattern Recognition

Biography

Dhouha Maatar was born in Sfax, Tunisia on March 26th1982. Maatar is now a PHD student at National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT) University. Maatar was awarded the Degree of Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in ENIT Tunisia University, on June, 2006. She awarded the Master degree in Automatic Control and Signal Processing, in (ENIT) University, on January 2008. Since September 2008, she was about to conduct researches for obtaining PhD degree in signal processing in ENIT Tunisia University in collaboration with Paris EST France University. As a result of his research work, he has several papers accepted by international conferences and journals. His previous and current research interests include: signal processing, pattern recognition, biomedical signals analysis

Author Articles
Human Balance and Stability Behavior Analysis Using Spatial and Temporal Stabilometric Parameters

By Dhouha MAATAR Regis FOURNIER Amine NAIT-ALI Zied LACHIRI

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2013.06.05, Pub. Date: 8 May 2013

Certain aspects of balance control can be affected by some entries as vision, proprioception, direction, age, Gender, height and weight. The knowledge of the effects of these factors on postural equilibrium allows differentiating pathological and physiological postural aspects. The aim of this study is to define the effects of these entries on postural control by analyzing the parameters: mean velocity of CoP (center of pressure), RMS (root mean square) CoP of displacement, Range of COP, CEA (confidence ellipse area). We examined healthy subjects between 19-42 years of age during the quiet stance under static conditions: keeping foot outspread and opened eyes (PE_YO), tighten foot and opened eyes (PS_YO), outspread foot and closed eyes (PE_YF), tightened foot and closed eyes (PS_YF). 
Experimental results through all studied parameters permit to conclude that the lack of vision and the situation with tighten foot cause a degradation of balance maintaining. They indicate also that it is easier to maintain equilibrium on the anteroposterior direction than mediolateral direction. Results show also a less well-controlled posture for male related to female.
Results display also that the postural parameters studied failed to find significant effect of the height, weight and age on the postural stability.

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Stabilogram mPCA Decomposition and Effects Analysis of Several Entries on The Postural Stability

By Dhouha MAATAR Zied LACHIRI Regis FOURNIER Amine NAIT-ALI

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2012.05.03, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2012

This paper presents an analysis of stabilogram using the modified Principal Component Analysis (mPCA) decomposition which will be employed to highlight the effects of different aspects on the human postural stability.
The aim of this study is to analyze stabilogram center of pressure time series using the mPCA decomposition method. The mPCA is a decomposition method applied to a complex signal. It decomposes the stabilogram, considered as an additive model, into three components: trend, rambling and trembling. The study of the trace of analytic trembling (respectively of rambling) in the complex plan highlights a unique rotation center. So the phase is defined and two parameters are extracted: the area of the circle in which 95% of the trace's data points are located and the angular frequency. In this study 25 healthy volunteers (average age 31± 11 years) are required to stand upright on an electromagnetic platform either with eyes closed or open and with feet outspread or tighten.
Experimental results show the efficiency of the parameter area to identify the effect of visual, proprioceptive and directional entries on the postural stability. These results are able to discriminate between control and young groups and indicate a less well-controlled posture for control subjects (34.5± 7.5y) relatively to young subjects (22.5 ±2. 5y). Results serve also to display that female subjects are more stable than males, that fat subjects are more stable than thin and that tall subjects are more stable than small.

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