A wavelet-based approach for screening falls risk in the elderly using support vector machines

Proceedings - 4th International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, ICISIP 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 184-189

  Khandoker, Ahsan H ^a   Lai, Daniel ^a   Begg, Rezaul K ^b   Palaniswami, Marimuthu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HEALTH; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VECTORS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

AUTOMATED DETECTION; EXTRACTING FEATURES; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENT SENSING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LEVEL 2; MINIMUM FOOT CLEARANCE; MULTI SCALING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; WAVELET-BASED APPROACH; WAVELET-BASED MULTISCALE ANALYSIS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 47749091307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICISIP.2006.4286092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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