Inspiration
The rash of Tommy John surgeries in children is disturbing. There is also an ever-increasing amount of Tommy John surgeries in amateur and pro baseball pitchers. It is an epidemic that threatens the health and future earning prospects of youth, amateur and professional baseball pitchers.
What it does
It detects the shoulder and elbow joints using tensorflow.js pose detection, a machine learning algorithm that runs in the browser
How we built it
Wrote it using JavaScript and converted it to TypeScript using js2ts.com
Challenges we ran into
CORS issues due to the need to upload photos, fortunately was able to use Express.js to imitate how photos could be served to the model
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Discovering the link between extended shoulder abduction and future injury, which will help baseball pitchers develop alternative pitching techniques to avoid future injury
What we learned
Machine learning in the browser can help sports analytics grow
What's next for ARM Preservation
Developing a mobile app and demoing to pro baseball teams
Built With
- chrome
- html
- javascript
- tensorflowjs
- typescript
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