Spectral analysis of accelerometry signals from a directed-routine for falls-risk estimation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2308-2315

  Liu, Ying ^a   Redmond, Stephen J ^a   Wang, Ning ^a   Blumenkron, Fernando ^b   Narayanan, Michael R ^a   Lovell, Nigel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Accelerometry; biosignal processing; falls risk; feature extraction; spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; AUTOMATED ALGORITHMS; BIOSIGNAL PROCESSING; EVENT SEGMENTATION; FALLS-RISK; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC RATIOS; HOME ENVIRONMENT; LONG TERM MONITORING; PREVENTION OF FALLS; SPECTRAL FEATURE; STRONG CORRELATION; TIME DOMAIN;

ACCELEROMETERS; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

RISK PERCEPTION;

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ACCELEROMETRY; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT MONITORING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACTIMETRY; AMBULATORY MONITORING; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; EQUIPMENT; FALLING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; DEVICES; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETRY; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIGRAPHY; AGED; ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79960705113     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2151193     Document Type: Article

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