Field-Deployable Pose Estimation for Youth Athlete Screening: A Reproducible Protocol and Its Sensitivity Limits in a Genetically Controlled Case Series

Authors

• Darvin Manuel Ramirez Guerra, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru
• Christian Edison De la Torre Choque, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru
• Jorge Guiseppe Herrera Chamorro, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru
• Jordi Kevin Flores Zabaleta, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru

Abstract

Smartphone pose-estimation applications promise laboratory-grade biomechanical screening at negligible cost, an attractive prospect for youth sport programmes in low-resource settings. This paper contributes a reproducible field protocol for smartphone-based postural and jump screening, and reports its behaviour on a deliberately adversarial test case: a set of sex-discordant triplets (n = 3, age 13 years) who share prenatal environment, socioeconomic context and training history. The contribution is the protocol, the fully reported case data, and an explicit statement of what a criterion-validation study against force platforms and open pose estimators would need to establish before field screening claims can be sustained.

Recommended Citation

Ramirez Guerra, Darvin Manuel; Christian Edison De la Torre Choque; Jorge Guiseppe Herrera Chamorro; and Jordi Kevin Flores Zabaleta. "Field-Deployable Pose Estimation for Youth Athlete Screening: A Reproducible Protocol and Its Sensitivity Limits in a Genetically Controlled Case Series." Neutrosophic Sets and Systems 101, 1 (2026). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nss_journal/vol101/iss1/15