Inertial measurements of free-living activities: Assessing mobility to predict falls

2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 6892-6895

  Wang, Kejia ^a   Lovell, Nigel H ^a   Del Rosario, Michael B ^a   Liu, Ying ^a   Wang, Jingjing ^a   Narayanan, Michael R ^a   Brodie, Matthew A D ^b   Delbaere, Kim ^b   Menant, Jasmine ^b   Lord, Stephen R ^b   Redmond, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYSIOLOGY; SPECTRAL DENSITY; STAIRS;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOMINANT FREQUENCY; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENTS; SENSOR LOCATION; SIGNAL VARIANCE; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUB-COMPONENTS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; ANKLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; RISK FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 84929493516     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6945212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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