Detection of falls among the elderly by a floor sensor using the electric near field

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1475-1476

  Rimminen, Henry ^a   Lindström, Juha ^b   Linnavuo, Matti ^a   Sepponen, Raimo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b MariMils Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptive filters; electric field measurement; fall detection; floor sensor; pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHODS; FALL DETECTION; FLOOR SENSOR; FLOOR SENSORS; NEAR FIELD IMAGING; NEAR FIELDS;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; FLOORS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSORS;

ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT;

AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUILDING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; BAYES THEOREM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; FLOORS AND FLOORCOVERINGS; HUMANS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78249246629     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2051956     Document Type: Article

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