Assessment of waist-worn tri-axial accelerometer based fall-detection algorithms using continuous unsupervised activities

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2782-2785

  Bourke, Alan K ^a   Van De Ven, Pepijn ^a   Gamble, Mary ^a   O'Connor, Raymond ^a   Murphy, Kieran ^a,c   Bogan, Elizabeth ^a   McQuade, Eamonn ^a   Finucane, Paul ^a   ÓLaighin, Gearóid ^b   Nelson, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c Mid Western Health Board   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; DATA SETS; DETECTION ALGORITHM; FALL DETECTION; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER;

ACCELEROMETERS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS;

ACCELERATION; AGED; ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BODY POSTURE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; POSTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78650821682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626364     Document Type: Conference Paper

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