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ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2018

Wrist accelerometer shape feature derivation methods for assessing activities of daily living.

Matin Kheirkhahan, Avirup Chakraborty, Amal A Wanigatunga, Duane B Corbett, Todd M Manini, Sanjay Ranka

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Article in BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Matin KheirkhahanDepartment of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. matin@cise.ufl.edu.
Avirup ChakrabortyDepartment of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Amal A WanigatungaDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Duane B CorbettDepartment of Aging and Geriatric Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Todd M ManiniDepartment of Aging and Geriatric Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Sanjay RankaDepartment of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
University of Florida · USJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

University of Florida Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC)P30AG028740 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI Peihua Qiu · 2007 to 2026
$22.8M
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS OF AGINGT32AG000247 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Karen J. Bandeen-Roche · 1996 to 2026
$13.2M
Metabolic Costs of Daily Activities in Older AdultsR01AG042525 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI MANINI, TODD · 2013 to 2017
$1.6M
Defining and Quantifying Fatigability in Functionally Independent Older AdultsR21AG053198 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SCHRACK, JENNIFER ANN · 2016 to 2017
$449k
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG028740NIA NIH HHS R01 AG042525NIA NIH HHS R21 AG053198NIA NIH HHS T32 AG000247
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThere has been an increasing interest in understanding the usefulness of wrist-based accelerometer data for physical activity (PA) assessment due to the ease of use and higher user compliance than other body placements. PA assessment studies have relied on machine learning methods which take accelerometer data in forms of variables, or feature vectors.

methodsIn this work, we introduce automated shape feature derivation methods to transform epochs of accelerometer data into feature vectors. As the first step, recurring patterns in the collected data are identified and placed in a codebook. Similarities between epochs of accelerometer data and codebook's patterns are the basis of feature calculations. In this paper, we demonstrate supervised and unsupervised approaches to learn codebooks. We evaluated these methods and compared them with the standard statistical measures for PA assessment. The experiments were performed on 146 participants who wore an ActiGraph GT3X+ accelerometer on the right wrist and performed 33 activities of daily living.

resultsOur evaluations show that the shape feature derivation methods were able to perform comparably with the standard wrist model (F1-score: 0.89) for identifying sedentary PAs (F1-scores of 0.86 and 0.85 for supervised and unsupervised methods, respectively). This was also observed for identifying locomotion activities (F1-scores: 0.87, 0.83, and 0.81 for the standard wrist, supervised, unsupervised models, respectively). All the wrist models were able to estimate energy expenditure required for PAs with low error (rMSE: 0.90, 0.93, and 0.90 for the standard wrist, supervised, and unsupervised models, respectively).

conclusionThe automated shape feature derivation methods offer insights into the performed activities by providing a summary of repeating patterns in the accelerometer data. Furthermore, they could be used as efficient alternatives (or additions) for manually engineered features, especially important for cases where the latter fail to provide sufficient information to machine learning methods for PA assessment.

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AccelerometryActivities of Daily LivingMachine LearningWristAdultAgedAged, 80 and overEnergy MetabolismFemaleHumansLocomotionMaleMiddle AgedActiGraphBag of wordsBig dataEnergy expenditurePhysical activity

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