Wearable assistant for Parkinsons disease patients with the freezing of gait symptom

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 436-446

  Bächlin, Marc ^a   Plotnik, Meir ^b   Roggen, Daniel ^a   Maidan, Inbal ^b   Hausdorff, Jeffrey M ^b,c   Giladi, Nir ^b   Tröster, Gerhard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Assistive cueing; Context awareness; Freezing of gait (FOG); Parkinson's disease (PD); Personal health assistant

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM PARAMETERS; ASSISTIVE; AUDITORY SIGNALS; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; CONTEXT-AWARE; FOG EVENTS; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; ON-BODY; PARKINSON'S DISEASE; PERSONAL HEALTH; SENSOR PLACEMENT; VIDEO ANALYSIS; WALKING TASKS; WEARABLE ASSISTANT; WEARABLE SYSTEMS;

FREEZING; SENSORS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

FOG;

ACCELERATION; AGED; ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CLOTHING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SELF HELP; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACCELERATION; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CLOTHING; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PARKINSON DISEASE; SELF-HELP DEVICES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77949703913     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2009.2036165     Document Type: Article

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