Study on automatic determination of foot-arch classification parameters, their reliabilities and classifying consistency

Abstract

In order to evaluate and classify foot-arch type scientifically,this paper proposed a method to automatically determine foot-arch classification parameters from two-dimensional footprints.An experimental study was conducted to evaluate the reliabilities and correlation of each parameter and the classifying consistency.The results showed that the reliabilities of arch index and footprint index are higher than those of ratio index;each parameter does correlate with each other well and the foot-arch type classification results from three investigated parameters have good consistency.The research output could be important in several aspects such as the design of comfortable footwear products,the screening process of athletes and soldiers,and the health care of foot.