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arxiv: 2605.11314 · v2 · pith:UBS25CSFnew · submitted 2026-05-11 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

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

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keywords markerless gait analysiscerebral palsyRodda and Graham classificationsingle-view videoz-scorespediatric gaitkinematicscomputer vision
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The pith

Single-view video analysis recovers knee and ankle z-scores for Rodda and Graham gait classification in children.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper develops a markerless pipeline that estimates quantitative z-scores for knee and ankle deviations directly from ordinary clinical gait videos. In a cohort of 152 children with mixed diagnoses, the method reaches R-squared of 0.80 for knees and 0.57 for ankles when checked against 3D instrumented gait analysis. It further supports binary screening for excess knee flexion and partial classification into standard gait patterns. Such video-derived numbers could replace subjective observation and reduce the need for costly lab visits while enabling repeated measurements over time.

Core claim

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 achieves AUROC = 0.88, correctly identifying 83% of affected children, and applying Rodda and Graham rules yields 43 ± 1% 7-class accuracy with macro-AUROC = 0.78 ± 0.01, with ankle prediction error remaining the primary bottleneck.

What carries the argument

Markerless gait analysis pipeline that derives 3D kinematics from single-view video and maps them to Rodda and Graham knee and ankle z-scores.

If this is right

  • Continuous z-scores enable longitudinal trajectory tracking across multiple patient visits.
  • Quantitative measures provide a substrate for monitoring disease progression and treatment response.
  • Binary screening identifies 83% of children with excess knee flexion.
  • The approach supports scalable objective gait assessment in low-resource clinical settings without 3D equipment.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Adding a second camera angle could reduce the ankle z-score error that currently limits overall classification accuracy.
  • Routine clinic videos could be processed automatically to create standardized gait records for any child who can walk.
  • The same pipeline might be tested on adults with similar gait deviations to check whether the learned mapping holds outside pediatrics.
  • Error patterns in ankle predictions could guide targeted improvements in how the model extracts foot and shank motion.

Load-bearing premise

A single sagittal-view video contains enough information to recover the specific sagittal-plane deviations that define the Rodda and Graham z-scores, and the learned mapping generalizes to new patients and recording conditions.

What would settle it

Retesting the pipeline on an independent set of 100 children from a different clinic yields R² below 0.6 for knee z-scores or AUROC below 0.75 for excess-flexion screening.

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 ↗
Figure 6
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 ↗
Figure 7
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 manuscript describes the development of a markerless gait analysis pipeline that estimates Rodda and Graham knee and ankle z-scores from single-view clinical gait videos in a heterogeneous cohort of 152 children with 60 distinct primary diagnoses. Using data from 1,058 bilateral limb samples across 529 trials, the sagittal-view model 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 when compared to 3D-IGA. It also evaluates binary screening for excess knee flexion (AUROC = 0.88) and 7-class classification accuracy (43 ± 1%).

Significance. If the reported performance generalizes, the work could enable more accessible quantitative gait assessment in low-resource clinical settings without 3D-IGA. The heterogeneous cohort spanning 60 diagnoses and the large sample size (1,058 limbs) are strengths that support broader applicability. Reporting continuous z-scores for potential longitudinal tracking, along with multiple metrics (R², CCC, AUROC), provides a useful quantitative substrate beyond observational scales.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract and results reporting do not specify the cross-validation partitioning strategy (e.g., subject-wise vs. trial-wise splits). With 529 trials drawn from only 152 children, this detail is load-bearing for the central generalization claim: without subject-stratified splits, the model could exploit child-specific gait signatures or session artifacts rather than recovering sagittal-plane deviations from video, undermining the reported R² = 0.80 ± 0.02 and CCC = 0.89 ± 0.02 for knee z-scores.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states performance numbers but omits any description of model architecture, training procedure, or video quality handling; adding these would improve reproducibility assessment without altering the core claims.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the positive assessment of our work's potential impact and for the constructive major comment. We address it directly below and will revise the manuscript to improve clarity on this point.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] The abstract and results reporting do not specify the cross-validation partitioning strategy (e.g., subject-wise vs. trial-wise splits). With 529 trials drawn from only 152 children, this detail is load-bearing for the central generalization claim: without subject-stratified splits, the model could exploit child-specific gait signatures or session artifacts rather than recovering sagittal-plane deviations from video, undermining the reported R² = 0.80 ± 0.02 and CCC = 0.89 ± 0.02 for knee z-scores.

    Authors: We agree that explicit reporting of the partitioning strategy is essential given the multi-trial structure (529 trials from 152 children). Our experiments used subject-wise partitioning via leave-one-subject-out cross-validation: all trials from any given child were assigned entirely to training or held-out test folds. This design was chosen precisely to prevent leakage of child-specific gait signatures or session artifacts and to support the generalization claims. We will revise the abstract to state: 'using subject-wise cross-validation across 152 children' and will add a corresponding sentence in the Methods and Results sections describing the strategy and its rationale. This change directly addresses the concern without altering the reported metrics. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: predictions evaluated against independent external ground truth

full rationale

The paper trains a markerless pipeline to regress Rodda-Graham knee and ankle z-scores from single-view video and reports R², CCC, and AUROC against 3D-IGA measurements obtained from the same subjects. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are presented that would make the reported z-score outputs definitionally identical to any internal model quantity or training target. The performance numbers are therefore empirical comparisons to an external reference standard rather than tautological self-consistency checks. Because the derivation chain contains no self-definitional, fitted-input-renamed-as-prediction, or load-bearing self-citation steps, the result is self-contained.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review provides limited visibility into modeling choices; the central claim rests on standard supervised learning assumptions plus the domain premise that 2D video kinematics suffice for sagittal z-score recovery. No explicit invented entities or ad-hoc constants are described.

free parameters (1)
  • deep learning model weights and hyperparameters
    Fitted during supervised training on paired video and 3D-IGA data to minimize prediction error on z-scores.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Single-view clinical gait videos contain sufficient sagittal-plane information to recover Rodda and Graham z-scores
    Implicit in the claim that the markerless pipeline quantifies the z-scores directly from video without 3D reconstruction.

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