Analysis of altered gait cycle duration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis based on nonparametric probability density function estimation

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 347-355

  Wu, Yunfeng ^a   Shi, Lei ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHONGSHAN HOSPITAL OF XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Gait analysis; Movement disorders; Parzen window; Probability density function; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

ALS PATIENTS; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; CROSS-VALIDATION METHODS; DIAGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE; GAIT CYCLES; GAUSSIAN KERNELS; HEALTHY CONTROLS; HUMAN LOCOMOTIONS; INTERVAL TIME SERIES; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; LEAST SQUARES SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; LEAVE-ONE-OUT; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NON-PARAMETRIC; PARZEN WINDOWS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION ESTIMATIONS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GAIT ANALYSIS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PROBABILITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TIME SERIES;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERNEL METHOD; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY THEORY; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79952315687     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.10.023     Document Type: Article

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