91 research outputs found
Automated Stroke Rehabilitation Assessment using Wearable Accelerometers in Free-Living Environments
Stroke is known as a major global health problem, and for stroke survivors it
is key to monitor the recovery levels. However, traditional stroke
rehabilitation assessment methods (such as the popular clinical assessment) can
be subjective and expensive, and it is also less convenient for patients to
visit clinics in a high frequency. To address this issue, in this work based on
wearable sensing and machine learning techniques, we developed an automated
system that can predict the assessment score in an objective and continues
manner. With wrist-worn sensors, accelerometer data was collected from 59
stroke survivors in free-living environments for a duration of 8 weeks, and we
aim to map the week-wise accelerometer data (3 days per week) to the assessment
score by developing signal processing and predictive model pipeline. To achieve
this, we proposed two new features, which can encode the rehabilitation
information from both paralysed/non-paralysed sides while suppressing the
high-level noises such as irrelevant daily activities. We further developed the
longitudinal mixed-effects model with Gaussian process prior (LMGP), which can
model the random effects caused by different subjects and time slots (during
the 8 weeks). Comprehensive experiments were conducted to evaluate our system
on both acute and chronic patients, and the results suggested its
effectiveness.Comment: submitted to ACM Trans. Computing for Healthcar
Fatigue Assessment using ECG and Actigraphy Sensors
Fatigue is one of the key factors in the loss of work efficiency and
health-related quality of life, and most fatigue assessment methods were based
on self-reporting, which may suffer from many factors such as recall bias. To
address this issue, we developed an automated system using wearable sensing and
machine learning techniques for objective fatigue assessment. ECG/Actigraphy
data were collected from subjects in free-living environments. Preprocessing
and feature engineering methods were applied, before interpretable solution and
deep learning solution were introduced. Specifically, for interpretable
solution, we proposed a feature selection approach which can select less
correlated and high informative features for better understanding system's
decision-making process. For deep learning solution, we used state-of-the-art
self-attention model, based on which we further proposed a consistency
self-attention (CSA) mechanism for fatigue assessment. Extensive experiments
were conducted, and very promising results were achieved.Comment: accepted by ISWC 202
Abnormal Infant Movements Classification With Deep Learning on Pose-Based Features
The pursuit of early diagnosis of cerebral palsy has been an active research area with some very promising results using tools such as the General Movements Assessment (GMA). In our previous work, we explored the feasibility of extracting pose-based features from video sequences to automatically classify infant body movement into two categories, normal and abnormal. The classification was based upon the GMA, which was carried out on the video data by an independent expert reviewer. In this paper we extend our previous work by extracting the normalised pose-based feature sets, Histograms of Joint Orientation 2D (HOJO2D) and Histograms of Joint Displacement 2D (HOJD2D), for use in new deep learning architectures. We explore the viability of using these pose-based feature sets for automated classification within a deep learning framework by carrying out extensive experiments on five new deep learning architectures. Experimental results show that the proposed fully connected neural network FCNet performed robustly across different feature sets. Furthermore, the proposed convolutional neural network architectures demonstrated excellent performance in handling features in higher dimensionality. We make the code, extracted features and associated GMA labels publicly available
Wearable Movement Sensors for Rehabilitation: From Technology to Clinical Practice
This Special Issue shows a range of potential opportunities for the application of wearable movement sensors in motor rehabilitation. However, the papers surely do not cover the whole field of physical behavior monitoring in motor rehabilitation. Most studies in this Special Issue focused on the technical validation of wearable sensors and the development of algorithms. Clinical validation studies, studies applying wearable sensors for the monitoring of physical behavior in daily life conditions, and papers about the implementation of wearable sensors in motor rehabilitation are under-represented in this Special Issue. Studies investigating the usability and feasibility of wearable movement sensors in clinical populations were lacking. We encourage researchers to investigate the usability, acceptance, feasibility, reliability, and clinical validity of wearable sensors in clinical populations to facilitate the application of wearable movement sensors in motor rehabilitation
Evaluating devices for the measurement of auditory-evoked fetal movement
Determining normal and abnormal fetal function in utero in order to better predict which fetuses are at risk for adverse outcome is critical. However, the medical imaging tools that could assist with diagnosis are very expensive and rarely available in the developing world. In this study, we developed a prototype audio-motio-tachograph (AMTG), which measures fetal movements through the recording of abdominal wall deformations and tested it in Rwanda. First, we showed that AMTG detected fetal signals and that fetuses respond to complex acoustic stimuli. In order to improve the sensitivity of the device, we then measured whole abdominal wall deformations in an automated way using a lab-based 3D optical measurement system, in which fringes are projected and the deflections recorded with a camera. We found that abdominal wall deformations can be measured accurately with a non-invasive measurement apparatus. Overall, we conclude that wearable modalities provide a promising alternative assessment capacity in fetal research, especially in low income countries
Leveraging Activity Recognition to Enable Protective Behavior Detection in Continuous Data
Protective behavior exhibited by people with chronic pain (CP) during
physical activities is the key to understanding their physical and emotional
states. Existing automatic protective behavior detection (PBD) methods rely on
pre-segmentation of activities predefined by users. However, in real life,
people perform activities casually. Therefore, where those activities present
difficulties for people with chronic pain, technology-enabled support should be
delivered continuously and automatically adapted to activity type and
occurrence of protective behavior. Hence, to facilitate ubiquitous CP
management, it becomes critical to enable accurate PBD over continuous data. In
this paper, we propose to integrate human activity recognition (HAR) with PBD
via a novel hierarchical HAR-PBD architecture comprising graph-convolution and
long short-term memory (GC-LSTM) networks, and alleviate class imbalances using
a class-balanced focal categorical-cross-entropy (CFCC) loss. Through in-depth
evaluation of the approach using a CP patients' dataset, we show that the
leveraging of HAR, GC-LSTM networks, and CFCC loss leads to clear increase in
PBD performance against the baseline (macro F1 score of 0.81 vs. 0.66 and
precision-recall area-under-the-curve (PR-AUC) of 0.60 vs. 0.44). We conclude
by discussing possible use cases of the hierarchical architecture in CP
management and beyond. We also discuss current limitations and ways forward.Comment: Submitted to PACM IMWU
Automated early prediction of cerebral palsy: interpretable pose-based assessment for the identification of abnormal infant movements
Cerebral Palsy (CP) is currently the most common chronic motor disability occurring in infants, affecting an estimated 1 in every 400 babies born in the UK each year. Techniques which can lead to an early diagnosis of CP have therefore been an active area of research, with some very promising results using tools such as the General Movements Assessment (GMA). By using video recordings of infant motor activity, assessors are able to classify an infant’s neurodevelopmental status based upon specific characteristics of the observed infant movement. However, these assessments are heavily dependent upon the availability of highly skilled assessors. As such, we explore the feasibility of the automated prediction of CP using machine learning techniques to analyse infant motion.
We examine the viability of several new pose-based features for the analysis and classification of infant body movement from video footage. We extensively evaluate the effectiveness of the extracted features using several proposed classification frameworks, and also reimplement the leading methods from the literature for direct comparison using shared datasets to establish a new state-of-the-art. We introduce the RVI-38 video dataset, which we use to further inform the design, and establish the robustness of our proposed complementary pose-based motion features. Finally, given the importance of explainable AI for clinical applications, we propose a new classification framework which also incorporates a visualisation module to further aid with interpretability. Our proposed pose-based framework segments extracted features to detect movement abnormalities spatiotemporally, allowing us to identify and highlight body-parts exhibiting abnormal movement characteristics, subsequently providing intuitive feedback to clinicians.
We suggest that our novel pose-based methods offer significant benefits over other approaches in both the analysis of infant motion and explainability of the associated data. Our engineered features, which are directly mapped to the assessment criteria in the clinical guidelines, demonstrate state-of-the-art performance across multiple datasets; and our feature extraction methods and associated visualisations significantly improve upon model interpretability
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