Determination of simple thresholds for accelerometry-based parameters for fall detection

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1367-1370

  Kangas, Maarit ^a   Konttila, Antti ^a   Winblad, Ilkka ^a   Jämsä, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ALGORITHMS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACCELEROMETRIC SENSORS; ACCELEROMETRY-BASED PARAMETERS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING (ADL); TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS;

HEALTH RISKS;

EID: 57649148922     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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