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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2021

Artificial Neural Network Analyzing Wearable Device Gait Data for Identifying Patients With Stroke Unable to Return to Work.

Marco Iosa, Edda Capodaglio, Silvia Pelà, Benedetta Persechino, Giovanni Morone, Gabriella Antonucci, Stefano Paolucci, Monica Panigazzi

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Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Marco IosaDepartment of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Edda CapodaglioOccupational Therapy and Ergonomics Unit, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCSS, Pavia, Italy.
Silvia PelàOccupational Therapy and Ergonomics Unit, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCSS, Pavia, Italy.
Benedetta PersechinoDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Epidemiology and Hygiene, Italian Workers' Compensation Authority (INAIL), Rome, Italy.
Giovanni MoroneScientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare (IRCCS) Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy.
Gabriella AntonucciDepartment of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Stefano PaolucciScientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare (IRCCS) Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy.
Monica PanigazziOccupational Therapy and Ergonomics Unit, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCSS, Pavia, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A potential dramatic effect of long-term disability due to stroke is the inability to return to work. An accurate prognosis and the identification of the parameters inflating the possibility of return to work after neurorehabilitation are crucial. Many factors may influence it, such as mobility and, in particular, walking ability. In this pilot study, two emerging technologies have been combined with the aim of developing a prognostic tool for identifying patients able to return to work: a wearable inertial measurement unit for gait analysis and an artificial neural network (ANN). Compared with more conventional statistics, the ANN showed a higher accuracy in identifying patients with respect to healthy subjects (90.9 vs. 75.8%) and also in identifying the subjects unable to return to work (93.9 vs. 81.8%). In this last analysis, the duration of double support phase resulted the most important input of the ANN. The potentiality of the ANN, developed also in other fields such as marketing on social networks, could allow a powerful support for clinicians that today should manage a large amount of instrumentally recorded parameters in patients with stroke.

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artificial intelligencelong-term disabilitymachine learningneurorehabiliationoccupational medicinepsychometricswalking

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PMCPMC8170310

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