Titre
Ambulatory system for human motion analysis using a kinematic sensor: monitoring of daily physical activity in the elderly
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Najafi, B.
Auteure/Auteur
Aminian, K.
Auteure/Auteur
Paraschiv-Ionescu, A.
Auteure/Auteur
Loew, F.
Auteure/Auteur
Bula, C. J.
Auteure/Auteur
Robert, P.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
0018-9294
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2003-06
Volume
50
Numéro
6
Première page
711
Dernière page/numéro d’article
23
Notes
Comparative Study
Evaluation Studies
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Validation Studies --- Old month value: Jun
Evaluation Studies
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Validation Studies --- Old month value: Jun
Résumé
A new method of physical activity monitoring is presented, which is able to detect body postures (sitting, standing, and lying) and periods of walking in elderly persons using only one kinematic sensor attached to the chest. The wavelet transform, in conjunction with a simple kinematics model, was used to detect different postural transitions (PTs) and walking periods during daily physical activity. To evaluate the system, three studies were performed. The method was first tested on 11 community-dwelling elderly subjects in a gait laboratory where an optical motion system (Vicon) was used as a reference system. In the second study, the system was tested for classifying PTs (i.e., lying-to-sitting, sitting-to-lying, and turning the body in bed) in 24 hospitalized elderly persons. Finally, in a third study monitoring was performed on nine elderly persons for 45-60 min during their daily physical activity. Moreover, the possibility-to-perform long-term monitoring over 12 h has been shown. The first study revealed a close concordance between the ambulatory and reference systems. Overall, subjects performed 349 PTs during this study. Compared with the reference system, the ambulatory system had an overall sensitivity of 99% for detection of the different PTs. Sensitivities and specificities were 93% and 82% in sit-to-stand, and 82% and 94% in stand-to-sit, respectively. In both first and second studies, the ambulatory system also showed a very high accuracy (> 99%) in identifying the 62 transfers or rolling out of bed, as well as 144 different posture changes to the back, ventral, right and left sides. Relatively high sensitivity (> 90%) was obtained for the classification of usual physical activities in the third study in comparison with visual observation. Sensitivities and specificities were, respectively, 90.2% and 93.4% in sitting, 92.2% and 92.1% in "standing + walking," and, finally, 98.4% and 99.7% in lying. Overall detection errors (as percent of range) were 3.9% for "standing + walking," 4.1% for sitting, and 0.3% for lying. Finally, overall symmetric mean average errors were 12% for "standing + walking," 8.2% for sitting, and 1.3% for lying.
Sujets
PID Serval
serval:BIB_BC96EDE429E0
PMID
Date de création
2008-01-24T15:35:08.261Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T23:46:10Z