Toward real-time accurate fall/fall recovery detection system by incorporating activity information

Proceedings - IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics: Global Grand Challenge of Health Informatics, BHI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 196-199

  Pannurat, Natthapon ^a   Theekakul, Pitchakan ^a   Thiemjarus, Surapa ^a   Nantajeewarawat, Ekawit ^a  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FALL DETECTION; JAVA EXPERT SYSTEM SHELL; KNOWLEDGE BASE; RECOVERY DETECTION; RULE SET; WEARABLE SENSORS;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; BIOSENSORS; EXPERT SYSTEMS;

RECOVERY;

EID: 84864224059     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BHI.2012.6211543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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