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Quantifying Rodda and Graham Gait Classification from 3D Makerless Kinematics derived from a Single-view Video in a Heterogeneous Pediatric Clinical Cohort

Anita Bagley, Hyeokhyen Kwon, Jeremy Bauer, Joseph Krzak, Karen Kruger, Lauhitya Reddy, Maura Eveld, Ross Chafetz, Seth Donahue, Susan Sienko, Vedant Kulkarni

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keywords markerless gait analysissingle-view videoRodda and Graham classificationz-scorespediatric gaitcerebral palsy3D kinematicsclinical screening
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A markerless pipeline from single-view video quantifies Rodda and Graham knee and ankle z-scores with R² of 0.80 for knees against 3D gait analysis in 152 children.

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The paper builds a system that turns ordinary clinical videos of children walking into numerical z-scores for knee and ankle alignment using the Rodda and Graham classification. It tests this on over a thousand limb samples from 152 kids with sixty different diagnoses and finds solid agreement for knee measures and usable but weaker agreement for ankle measures when compared to expensive 3D motion-capture labs. The approach also supports binary screening for excess knee flexion and full seven-class gait typing while producing continuous scores that can be tracked over repeated visits. This matters because 3D analysis is available only at specialized centers and observational ratings vary between clinicians, so video-derived numbers could bring consistent, low-cost monitoring to more settings. The work positions the method as a practical step toward routine objective gait assessment outside research labs.

Core claim

A markerless gait analysis pipeline quantifies Rodda and Graham knee and ankle z-scores directly from single-view clinical gait videos. Across 1,058 bilateral limb samples from 529 trials of 152 children with 60 distinct primary diagnoses, the sagittal-view model achieved R² = 0.80 ± 0.02 and CCC = 0.89 ± 0.02 for knee z-scores and R² = 0.57 ± 0.02 and CCC = 0.72 ± 0.02 for ankle z-scores against 3D-IGA. Binary screening for excess knee flexion reaches AUROC = 0.88 while full seven-class classification yields 43 ± 1 % accuracy with macro-AUROC = 0.78 ± 0.01, with ankle error remaining the main limit; continuous z-scores further enable longitudinal trajectory tracking.

What carries the argument

The markerless pipeline that converts single-view 2D video kinematics into 3D-derived knee and ankle z-scores for direct use in the Rodda and Graham system.

If this is right

  • Binary screening for excess knee flexion identifies affected children with AUROC 0.88 and 83 % sensitivity.
  • Rule-based assignment to seven gait classes achieves 43 % accuracy and macro-AUROC 0.78.
  • Continuous z-scores allow tracking of gait changes across multiple clinic visits to monitor progression and treatment response.
  • Video-based quantification provides an objective alternative to observational scales in clinics without 3D equipment.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Lower ankle accuracy points to possible gains from adding a second camera angle or targeted model improvements for foot placement.
  • Performance across sixty diagnoses suggests the same pipeline could extend to gait problems in other pediatric neuromuscular conditions.
  • Longitudinal z-score tracking could support earlier detection of walking decline and more frequent adjustment of interventions than yearly lab visits allow.
  • Deployment on consumer smartphones would shift monitoring from occasional clinic trips to regular home-based measurements.

Load-bearing premise

That single-view 2D video kinematics can be mapped reliably to the 3D-IGA z-scores used as ground truth, particularly for ankle measurements where agreement is lower.

What would settle it

An independent test set of 100 children with simultaneous 3D-IGA recordings in which the video-derived knee z-scores produce R² below 0.60 would show the mapping does not hold.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.11314 by Anita Bagley, Hyeokhyen Kwon, Jeremy Bauer, Joseph Krzak, Karen Kruger, Lauhitya Reddy, Maura Eveld, Ross Chafetz, Seth Donahue, Susan Sienko, Vedant Kulkarni.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Rodda and Graham z-score space. The horizontal axis represents the ankle z-score (negative: excess plantarflexion; positive: excess dorsiflexion) and the vertical axis represents the knee z-score (negative: hyperextension; positive: excess flexion). The gray region represents z-scores between −1 and +1, considered within the normal range. Silhouettes depict each gait class. CP using 2D pose data captured f… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: (a) The sagittal video stream. (b) The frontal video stream. (c) Experimental setup mockup showing the relative positioning of the multi-view recording array used during trials. (d) Monocular 3D pose estimation results across all eight camera viewpoints for a representative child. kinematic deviation measure rather than a diagnosis-specific label. A gait cycle is the sequence of motions that occurs from th… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of the experimental pipeline. Monocular 3D pose estimation extracts keypoints from clinical gait video, which are cleaned and represented as raw coordinates or derived joint angles. Both representations are windowed and processed by deep learning models (DCL, ST-GCN, AGCN, and AGCN+ViT) under participant-wise 5-fold cross-validation for ankle and knee z-score regression. May 13, 2026 8/29 [PITH_F… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Trial-level z-score prediction on AGCN+ViT. Top row, predicted vs. true z-scores for (a) knee and (b) ankle. The black line is the regression fit and the gray line is the identity. Red dashed lines mark ±1 classification boundaries. Bottom row, Bland-Altman plots for (c) knee (bias = −0.16, LoA = [−4.06, 3.74]) and (d) ankle (bias = 0.23, LoA = [−4.21, 4.67]). Rodda and Graham 7-Class Gait Classification W… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Confusion matrix for Rodda and Graham 7-class classification from predicted z-scores (AGCN). reliably identified classifications. The confusion matrix ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: ROC curve for binary knee flexion classification (AGCN+ViT). AUROC = 0.88. rising in prevalence with age [47]. The clinical decision threshold for this pattern is a single cut-point on the knee z-score (z > 1), making binary detection of z > 1 the most natural first test of whether our continuous z-score predictions can support a clinically useful triage decision. Thresholding predicted knee z-scores at +1… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Per-bin analysis of trial-level AGCN+ViT z-score predictions. The true z-score range is partitioned into contiguous bins of width 0.5, and mean absolute error (MAE) and 3-class accuracy are computed within each bin. (a) Knee per-bin MAE with label-distribution-smoothed inverse sample density overlay (gray). (b) Knee per-bin 3-class accuracy. (c) Ankle per-bin MAE with inverse sample density overlay. (d) An… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Decile-binned calibration plots for knee (left) and ankle (right). The model line (colored) shows mean predicted vs. mean true z-score per decile, where a perfectly calibrated model would follow the identity (dotted). Discussion Direct Biomechanical Calculation From Monocular Video Fails The Rodda and Graham z-score is, by construction, a deterministic function of sagittal-plane joint angles, and we calcul… view at source ↗
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Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a neurological disorder of movement and the most common cause of lifelong physical disability in childhood. Approximately 75% of children with CP are ambulatory, and accurate gait assessment is central to preserving walking function, which deteriorates by mid-adulthood in a quarter to half of adults with CP. The Rodda and Graham classification system quantifies sagittal-plane gait deviations using ankle and knee z-scores derived from 3D Instrumented Gait Analysis (3D-IGA), but 3D-IGA is expensive and limited to specialized centers, while observational assessment shows only moderate inter-rater agreement. We developed a markerless gait analysis pipeline that quantifies Rodda and Graham knee and ankle z-scores directly from single-view clinical gait videos. Across 1,058 bilateral limb samples from 529 trials of 152 children (88 male, 63 female; age 12.1 $\pm$ 4.0 years; 60 distinct primary diagnoses, cerebral palsy the most common at $n=54$), the sagittal-view model achieved $R^2 = 0.80 \pm 0.02$ and CCC $= 0.89 \pm 0.02$ for knee z-scores and $R^2 = 0.57 \pm 0.02$ and CCC $= 0.72 \pm 0.02$ for ankle z-scores against 3D-IGA. Binary screening for excess knee flexion achieves AUROC $= 0.88$, correctly identifying 83% of affected children, and applying Rodda and Graham rules yields $43 \pm 1$% 7-class accuracy with macro-AUROC $= 0.78 \pm 0.01$, ankle prediction error remaining the primary bottleneck. Beyond cross-sectional screening, continuous z-scores support longitudinal trajectory tracking across visits, providing a quantitative substrate for monitoring disease progression and treatment response unavailable from observational scales. These results demonstrate the feasibility of video-based z-score estimation, excess-flexion screening, and longitudinal trajectory tracking as a path toward scalable, objective gait assessment in low-resource clinical settings.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims to have developed a markerless pipeline using single-view sagittal clinical gait videos to directly estimate Rodda-Graham knee and ankle z-scores in a heterogeneous pediatric cohort (152 children, 60 diagnoses, 1,058 bilateral samples). It reports R² = 0.80 ± 0.02 and CCC = 0.89 ± 0.02 for knee z-scores and R² = 0.57 ± 0.02 and CCC = 0.72 ± 0.02 for ankle z-scores against 3D-IGA labels, plus AUROC = 0.88 for excess knee flexion screening and 43% 7-class accuracy, positioning the method as a scalable alternative for longitudinal monitoring.

Significance. If the central mapping holds after addressing validation gaps, the work offers a practical route to quantitative, low-cost gait assessment outside specialized 3D-IGA centers, with direct utility for CP and other pediatric movement disorders. The sizable multi-diagnosis cohort and explicit longitudinal-tracking framing are strengths that could support broader adoption if reproducibility is demonstrated.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract and Results: Ankle z-score performance (R² = 0.57 ± 0.02, CCC = 0.72 ± 0.02) is substantially weaker than knee and is identified as the primary bottleneck, yet no analysis of view sufficiency (e.g., sensitivity to out-of-plane foot progression or markerless pose ambiguity) or failure-case stratification is provided; this directly limits the claim that the full Rodda-Graham system can be quantified from single-view video.
  2. [Results] Results: Despite the cohort spanning 60 distinct primary diagnoses (CP n=54), no diagnosis-stratified metrics or leave-one-diagnosis-out validation are reported; without these, it is impossible to distinguish genuine generalization from exploitation of CP-dominant patterns, which is load-bearing for the heterogeneous-cohort claim.
  3. [Methods] Methods (inferred from abstract description): No details are given on the pose-estimation backbone, 2D-to-3D kinematic derivation, regression architecture for z-score prediction, training procedure, or cross-validation scheme; these omissions prevent assessment of whether the reported correlations are robust or overfit to the 3D-IGA labels.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: Mathematical notation (R², CCC, AUROC) is inconsistently formatted; consistent use of proper math mode or inline symbols would improve readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their detailed and constructive review. We address each major comment below and have prepared revisions to strengthen the manuscript where the concerns are valid.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract and Results: Ankle z-score performance (R² = 0.57 ± 0.02, CCC = 0.72 ± 0.02) is substantially weaker than knee and is identified as the primary bottleneck, yet no analysis of view sufficiency (e.g., sensitivity to out-of-plane foot progression or markerless pose ambiguity) or failure-case stratification is provided; this directly limits the claim that the full Rodda-Graham system can be quantified from single-view video.

    Authors: We agree that ankle performance remains the primary bottleneck and that the single sagittal view inherently limits information on out-of-plane foot progression and introduces pose ambiguity for distal segments. The original manuscript already flags ankle error as the limiting factor for full 7-class Rodda-Graham accuracy. In revision we will add (i) failure-case stratification by pose-estimation confidence and foot-progression angle, and (ii) an explicit discussion of view-sufficiency constraints, thereby tempering the claim to emphasize screening utility while acknowledging that complete Rodda-Graham quantification from a single sagittal view is not yet achieved. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results] Results: Despite the cohort spanning 60 distinct primary diagnoses (CP n=54), no diagnosis-stratified metrics or leave-one-diagnosis-out validation are reported; without these, it is impossible to distinguish genuine generalization from exploitation of CP-dominant patterns, which is load-bearing for the heterogeneous-cohort claim.

    Authors: The manuscript highlights the 60-diagnosis composition as a strength, yet we acknowledge that CP (n=54) is the largest single group and that aggregate metrics alone cannot rule out CP-specific pattern exploitation. In the revised manuscript we will report performance stratified by the most frequent diagnostic categories and include a leave-one-diagnosis-out (or leave-one-major-diagnosis-out) validation experiment to quantify generalization beyond the CP-dominant subset. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Methods] Methods (inferred from abstract description): No details are given on the pose-estimation backbone, 2D-to-3D kinematic derivation, regression architecture for z-score prediction, training procedure, or cross-validation scheme; these omissions prevent assessment of whether the reported correlations are robust or overfit to the 3D-IGA labels.

    Authors: We regret that the methods section in the initial submission was insufficiently detailed. The full manuscript describes a markerless pipeline that derives 3D kinematics from single-view video, but we will expand it substantially to specify the pose-estimation backbone, the 2D-to-3D lifting procedure, the regression architecture and loss for z-score prediction, training hyperparameters, and the subject-wise cross-validation scheme. These additions will enable readers to evaluate robustness and potential overfitting. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; supervised ML mapping validated on external 3D-IGA labels

full rationale

The paper trains models to regress knee and ankle z-scores from single-view video kinematics, using 3D-IGA as ground-truth labels across 1,058 samples. Reported R² and CCC values are standard held-out validation metrics, not derivations that reduce to inputs by construction. No equations, ansatzes, or self-citations are invoked to force outputs; the lower ankle performance is explicitly noted as a limitation. The derivation chain is a data-driven predictor with independent external benchmark, yielding no load-bearing circular steps.

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Review performed on abstract only; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. The pipeline implicitly relies on standard supervised learning assumptions and the validity of 3D-IGA as ground truth.

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