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One of the most common knee joint disorders is known as osteoarthritis which results from the progressive degeneration of cartilage and subchondral bone over time, affecting essentially elderly adults. Current evaluation techniques are either complex, expensive, invasive or simply fails into detection of small and progressive changes that occur within the knee. Vibroarthrography appeared as a new solution where the mechanical vibratory signals arising from the knee are recorded recurring only to an accelerometer and posteriorly analyzed enabling the differentiation between a healthy and an arthritic joint. In this study, a vibration-based classification system was created using a dataset with 92 healthy and 120 arthritic segments of knee joint signals collected from 19 healthy and 20 arthritic volunteers, evaluated with k-nearest neighbors and support vector machine classifiers. The best classification was obtained using the k-nearest neighbors classifier with only 6 time-frequency features with an overall accuracy of 89.8% and with a precision, recall and f-measure of 88.3%, 92.4% and 90.1%, respectively. Preliminary results showed that vibroarthrography can be a promising, non-invasive and low cost tool that could be used for screening purposes. Despite this encouraging results, several upgrades in the data collection process and analysis can be further implemented.
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