New approaches to studying skeletal muscle dynamics using ultrasonography

Wed Jun 19 2024 at 12:00 pm to 01:30 pm UTC+01:00

Leeds Beckett University, School of Sports Building, Boardroom 115 | Leeds

Carnegie School of Sport
Publisher/HostCarnegie School of Sport
New approaches to studying skeletal muscle dynamics using ultrasonography
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The seminar will discuss dynamic features of muscle contraction and new non-invasive approaches of quantifying skeletal muscle health
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Summary: Ultrasound imaging is a widely used method for study of skeletal muscle anatomy and mechanical behaviour in human health and disease. Early work relied on human-operators, manually marking images to quantify the features of interest. While these approaches have provided seminal insights of skeletal muscle characteristics, development and application of automated, computational image analysis methods has extended the information that may be gathered from recorded images. I will provide an overview of our work to identify and measure skeletal muscle anatomy and behaviour, using computer vision and learning-based analysis approaches. I will discuss how these approaches more fully exploit the information content of recorded images to provide objective measures of dynamic features of muscle contraction, including motor unit properties, and consider the potential for new non-invasive approaches of quantifying skeletal muscle health.


Speaker Bio: Emma Hodson-Tole is Professor of Neuromuscular Biomechanics in the Department of Life Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University and a member of Manchester Metropolitan's Institute of Sport. Her research investigates the functional relationships between anatomical, mechanical and physiological characteristics of skeletal muscle in healthy humans and those living with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Motor Neurone Disease. This work spans scales of single muscle cells through to multi-muscle coordination; and combines physiological and biomechanical measurements with elements of signal processing, computer vision, mechanical and electrical engineering and in silico modelling. Her work is inspired by a life-long fascination in how animals move, and her early training was in animal biomechanics. This means she has worked across both comparative and human neuro-mechanics fields, with current work focusing on human health and function.

Chair:

Dr Gareth Nicholson


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Leeds Beckett University, School of Sports Building, Boardroom 115, Headingley Campus, Leeds, United Kingdom

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