An effective assessment method of spinal flexibility to predict the initial in-orthosis correction on the patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS)

• Chen He,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Interdisciplinary Division of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4760-2135

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• Michael Kai-Tsun To,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

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• Jason Pui-Yin Cheung,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

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• Kenneth Man-Chee Cheung,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

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• Chi-Kwan Chan,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Prosthetics and Orthotics, The Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital, Sandy Bay, Hong Kong

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• Wei-Wei Jiang,

  Roles Data curation, Software

  Affiliations Interdisciplinary Division of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, College of Computer Science and Technology, Xihu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

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• Guang-Quan Zhou,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Validation

  Affiliation State Key laboratory of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Xuanwu District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

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• Kelly Ka-Lee Lai,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Interdisciplinary Division of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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• Yong-Ping Zheng,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Interdisciplinary Division of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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• Man-Sang Wong

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: m.s.wong@polyu.edu.hk

  Affiliation Interdisciplinary Division of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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