Robust Stride Segmentation of Inertial Signals Based on Local Cyclicity Estimation

Autor: Matjaž B. Jurič, Sebastijan Sprager
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Inertial frame of reference
Computer science
biomedical signal processing
obdelava biomedicinskih signalov
STRIDE
02 engineering and technology
lcsh:Chemical technology
01 natural sciences
Biochemistry
Article
inertial signals
Analytical Chemistry
udc:004.93:621.391
Gait (human)
Inertial measurement unit
Robustness (computer science)
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

Segmentation
lcsh:TP1-1185
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Instrumentation
Ground truth
business.industry
010401 analytical chemistry
Pattern recognition
inertial sensors
stride segmentation
gait assessment
Gait
Atomic and Molecular Physics
and Optics

0104 chemical sciences
segmentacija korakov
ocenjevanje hoje
Gait analysis
inercijski signali
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Artificial intelligence
inercialni senzorji
business
Zdroj: Sensors; Volume 18; Issue 4; Pages: 1091
Sensors, vol. 18, no. 4, 1091, 2018.
Sensors, Vol 18, Iss 4, p 1091 (2018)
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
ISSN: 1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s18041091
Popis: A novel approach for stride segmentation, gait sequence extraction, and gait event detection for inertial signals is presented. The approach operates by combining different local cyclicity estimators and sensor channels, and can additionally employ a priori knowledge on the fiducial points of gait events. The approach is universal as it can work on signals acquired by different inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor types, is template-free, and operates unsupervised. A thorough evaluation was performed with two datasets: our own collected FRIgait dataset available for open use, containing long-term inertial measurements collected from 57 subjects using smartphones within the span of more than one year, and an FAU eGait dataset containing inertial data from shoe-mounted sensors collected from three cohorts of subjects: healthy, geriatric, and Parkinsonrsquo;s disease patients. The evaluation was performed in controlled and uncontrolled conditions. When compared to the ground truth of the labelled FRIgait and eGait datasets, the results of our evaluation revealed the high robustness, efficiency (F-measure of about 98%), and accuracy (mean absolute error MAE in about the range of one sample) of the proposed approach. Based on these results, we conclude that the proposed approach shows great potential for its applicability in procedures and algorithms for movement analysis.
Databáze: OpenAIRE