Falls event detection using triaxial accelerometry and barometric pressure measurement

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 6111-6114

  Bianchi, Federico ^a   Redmond, Stephen J ^b   Narayanan, Michael R ^b   Cerutti, Sergio ^a   Celler, Branko G ^b   Lovell, Nigel H ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BAROMETERS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; DETECTION ALGORITHM; DETECTION SYSTEM; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; SURROGATE MEASURES; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER;

ACCELEROMETERS;

EID: 77951001943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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