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Biomechanical assessment of repetitive brain injury in pedestrian collisions based on wavelet packet energy analysis Cover

Biomechanical assessment of repetitive brain injury in pedestrian collisions based on wavelet packet energy analysis

Open Access
|Oct 2026

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Grouping of repetitive animal experiments

GroupImpact pressureNumbers of rats
Repeated impact0.2 + 0.2 MPa9
0.2 + 0.3 MPa9
0.2 + 0.4 MPa9
0.3 + 0.2 MPa9
0.3 + 0.3 MPa9
0.3 + 0.4 MPa9
0.4 + 0.2 MPa9
0.4 + 0.3 MPa9
0.4 + 0.4 MPa9
Single impact0.2 MPa9
0.3 MPa9
0.4 MPa9
Control09
Figure 1

Video taken to estimate vehicle collision speed and pedestrian pose.

Figure 2

Comparison of pedestrian kinematics between reconstruction and video data.

Figure 3

Decomposition tree for wavelet packet analysis.

Figure 4

Pearson correlation coefficient (r 2) heat maps with different frequency-domain energy characteristics and brain injury criteria based on different kinematics: (a) time-domain criterion and frequency-domain index correlation based on linear motion, (b) time-domain criterion and frequency-domain index correlation based on rotational motion.

Figure 5

The total energy of the resultant linear acceleration signal. (a) Energy distribution in a single collision; (b) cumulative distribution of energy under repeated collisions.

Figure 6

The total energy of the resultant angular acceleration signal. (a) Energy distribution in a single collision; (b) cumulative distribution of energy under repeated collisions.

Figure 7

Pearson correlation coefficient (r 2) heatmaps for different time and frequency domain injury metrics.

Figure 8

ROC curves of different injury metrics for predicting brain injury risk AIS4+. (a) Standard prediction of head injury based on timedomain Angle; (b) prediction based on Angle characteristic index in frequency domain.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37190/abb/225553 | Journal eISSN: 2450-6303 | Journal ISSN: 1509-409X
Language: English
Page range: 24 - 33
Submitted on: Jun 1, 2026
Accepted on: Jun 7, 2026
Published on: Oct 16, 2026
Published by: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2026 Liangliang Shi, Tao Xiong, Zhiyong Yin, Kui Li, Shengxiong Liu, Zhengdong Li, published by Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
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