In recent times, widely understood spine diseases have advanced to one of the most urgetn problems where quick diagnosis and treatment are needed. To diagnose its specifics (e.g. to decide whether this is a scoliosis or sagittal imbalance) and assess its extend, various kind of imaging diagnostic methods (such as X-Ray, CT, MRI scan or ST) are used. However, despite their common use, some may be regarded as (to a level) invasive methods and there are cases where there are contraindications to using them. Besides, which is even more of a problem, these are very expensive methods and whilst their use for pure diagnostic purposes is absolutely valid, then due to their cost, they cannot rather be considered as tools which would be equally valid for bad posture screening programs purposes. This paper provides an initial evaluation of the alternative approach to the spine diseases diagnostic/screening using inertial measurement unit and we propose policy-based computing as the core for the inference systems. Although the methodology presented herein is potentially applicable to a variety of spine diseases, in the nearest future we will focus specifically on sagittal imbalance detection.

Department of Mechanical Engineering Graphic Era University Dehradun India

Department of Neurosurgery 4th Military Hospital in Wrocław Wrocław Poland

Department of Neurosurgery University Hospital Bonn Bonn Germany

Department of Neurosurgery Vital Medic Hospital Kluczbork Poland

Department of Theoretical Basis of Biomedical Sciences and Medical Informatics Nicolaus Copernicus University Collegium Medicum 85 067 Bydgoszcz Poland

Faculty of Computer Science Kazimierz Wielki University 85 064 Bydgoszcz Poland

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science VSB Technical University of Ostrava Ostrava Poruba Czech Republic

Faculty of Electrical Engineering Automatic Control and Informatics Opole University of Technology 45 758 Opole Poland

Faculty of Health Sciences Wroclaw Medical University Wrocław Poland

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan Poznan 61 614 Poland

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Opole University of Technology 45 271 Opole Poland

Faculty of Philosophy Kazimierz Wielki University Bydgoszcz 85 092 Poland

Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy Opole University of Technology 45 758 Opole Poland

Lviv Polytechnic National University Institute of Computer Technologies Automation and Metrology Lviv Ukraine

Psychiatric Department of Children and Adolescents Psychiatric Center in Warta 98 290 Warta Poland

School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences University of Greenwich London SE10 9LS UK

The Society for the Substitution Treatment of Addiction Medically Assisted Recovery 85 791 Bydgoszcz Poland

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