<div dir="ltr"><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-e0a72fcf-7fff-6974-4841-2a34171c4f6f"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">First Stroke Grand Challenge Data and Models Now Available for Download on SimTK</span></span><br></div><div><br></div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-7a21cc6c-7fff-ade7-e561-ef3201b74d11"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We invite you to learn about and participate in the first </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://simtk.org/projects/strokerehab__;!!BuQPrrmRaQ!gCj8tPWJifVUU6QV2L8CyWdNK7rAwQmhoEp5Mtt8PCrMYptIu2ZA-Rg_E8c0d98pTZaDOscoVnWBf4CFeg37qM2yCx9K$" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,82,167);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Stroke Grand Challenge Competition</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> using the </span><a href="https://nmsm.rice.edu/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Neuromusculoskeletal Modeling (NMSM) Pipeline</span></a> (powered by OpenSim and Matlab)<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> , OpenSim Moco, or an optimal control software of your choice. Organized by the </span><a href="https://rcnl.rice.edu/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,82,167);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Rice Computational Neuromechanics Lab</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,82,167);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">and held at the </span><a href="https://asbweb.org/asb-2024/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">American Society of Biomechanics annual conference</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, the competition will provide the biomechanics research community with one comprehensive post-stroke walking dataset each year to design personalized stroke neurorehabilitation treatments. Winners of the competition will receive a certificate, $1,000 cash prize, and fast-tracked review in the </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. </span></span> <div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">The data and OpenSim models needed to compete in the Stroke Grand Challenge Competition are now available to <a href="https://simtk.org/frs/?group_id=2658">download</a>. </span></font></div><div><ul><li><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Data: Post Stroke subject </span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Data: Healthy subject for comparison </span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Model 1: Personalized OpenSIm model compatible with the NMSM Pipeline </span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Model 2: Personalized OpenSim model compatible with OpenSim Moco</span></font></li></ul></div><div>More details on the competition, data, and models are included in the Competition Description document in the download (<a href="https://simtk.org/frs/?group_id=2658">https://simtk.org/frs/?group_id=2658</a>).<br></div><div><br></div><div>If you have any questions or concerns please post a message on the SimTK project <a href="https://simtk.org/plugins/phpBB/indexPhpbb.php?group_id=2658&pluginname=phpBB">forum </a>or send an email to <a href="mailto:nmsm@rice.edu">nmsm@rice.edu</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><div>--<br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://rcnl.rice.edu/" target="_blank">Rice Computational Neuromechanics Lab</a><br></div><div><div><a href="mailto:nmsm@rice.edu">nmsm@rice.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>