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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine Volume 2011, Article ID 569898, 14 pages doi:10.1155/2011/569898 Research Article Arthritic Hand-Finger Movement Similarity Measurements: Tolerance Near Set Approach Christopher Henry and James F. Peters Computational Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 5V6 Correspondence should be addressed to James F. Peters, jfpeters@ee.umanitoba.ca Received 12 August 2010; Accepted 9 February 2011 Academic Editor: Reinoud Maex Copyright © 2011 C. Henry and J. F. Peters. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The problem considered in this paper is how to measure the degree of resemblance between nonarthritic and arthritic hand movements during rehabilitation exercise. The solution to this problem stems from recent work on a tolerance space view of digital images and the introduction of image resemblance measures. The motivation for this work is both to quantify and to visualize differences between hand-finger movements in an effort to provide clinicians and physicians with indications of the efficacy of the prescribed rehabilitation exercise. The more recent introduction of tolerance near sets has led to a useful approach for measuring the similarity of sets of objects and their application to the problem of classifying image sequences extracted from videos showing finger-hand movement during rehabilitation exercise. The approach to measuring the resemblance between hand movement images introduced in this paper is based on a