NDLI: A hybrid Support Vector Machine and autoregressive model for detecting gait disorders in the elderly

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Author	Lai, D.T.H. Khandoker, A. Begg, R.K. Palaniswami, M.
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Melbourne Univ., Melbourne (Lai, D.T.H.; Khandoker, A.)
Abstract	The consequence of tripping and falling in the elderly population is serious because of the life threatening fractures which occur and the high medical costs incurred. Recently, the minimum toe clearance (MTC) has been employed in gait analysis as a sensitive gait variable for early detection of elderly people at risk of falling. In previous work, we successfully applied statistical and wavelet analysis methods with Support Vector Machines (SVM) to model the risk of tripping in the elderly. In this work, we propose to model the MTC time series as a wide based stationary random signal using the autoregressive (AR) process. Initially, it was found that a fourth order AR model constructed from 512 MTC samples per subject on 23 subjects completely modelled the balance impaired gait (pathological) from normal gait. However, when the number of MTC samples were reduced to 32, the two groups became inseparable. We then proposed a hybrid system consisting of a SVM classifier with AR model coefficients as input features to separate the two classes. It was found that SVMs with linear and Gaussian kernels produced 100% leave one out accuracies without the need for prior feature selection algorithms. In contrast, SVM models built previously from the best set of wavelet features produced only 86.95% leave one out accuracies. These results suggest that pathological gait is best modelled by the AR process if sufficient MTC data is available. In the case of shorter MTC data, the AR model still provides powerful and robust discriminative features which can be used by the SVM to detect elderly people at risk of falling.
Starting Page	321
Ending Page	326
File Size	2913477
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424413799
ISSN	10987576
DOI	10.1109/IJCNN.2007.4370976
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-08-12
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Support vector machines Legged locomotion Senior citizens Risk analysis Pathology Support vector machine classification Costs Wavelet analysis Signal processing Kernel
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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