A method for automatic fall detection of elderly people using floor vibrations and soundProof of concept on human mimicking doll falls

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2858-2867

  Zigel, Yaniv ^a   Litvak, Dima ^b   Gannot, Israel ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic signal processing; Fall detector; Feature extraction; Pattern recognition; Transducers

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CASE; ELDERLY PEOPLE; FALL DETECTION; FALL DETECTOR; FALL DETECTORS; FLOOR VIBRATIONS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; PATTERN RECOGNITION ALGORITHMS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RAPID DETECTION; SHOCK RESPONSE SPECTRA; STRESS CONDITION; TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; DETECTORS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLOORS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; FALLING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOCK; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; SOUND DETECTION; STRESS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VIBRATION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIBRATION;

EID: 72649098464     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2030171     Document Type: Article

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