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ArticleBiomedical engineering online2021

Machine-learning-based children's pathological gait classification with low-cost gait-recognition system.

Linghui Xu, Jiansong Chen, Fei Wang, Yuting Chen, Wei Yang, Canjun Yang

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Linghui XuNingbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, 315100, China.
Jiansong ChenDepartment of Orthopedics, The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310006, China.
Fei WangIndustrial Design Department of the Art and Design Institute, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, 310024, China.
Yuting ChenHebei Heavy Machinery Fluid Power Transmission and Control Lab, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China.
Wei YangNingbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, 315100, China. simpleway@zju.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8177-1071
Canjun YangNingbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, 315100, China.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant No. 51805469Science and technology plan project of drug regulatory system of Zhejiang province 2020016
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Abstract

backgroundPathological gaits of children may lead to terrible diseases, such as osteoarthritis or scoliosis. By monitoring the gait pattern of a child, proper therapeutic measures can be recommended to avoid the terrible consequence. However, low-cost systems for pathological gait recognition of children automatically have not been on market yet. Our goal was to design a low-cost gait-recognition system for children with only pressure information.

methodsIn this study, we design a pathological gait-recognition system (PGRS) with an 8 × 8 pressure-sensor array. An intelligent gait-recognition method (IGRM) based on machine learning and pure plantar pressure information is also proposed in static and dynamic sections to realize high accuracy and good real-time performance. To verifying the recognition effect, a total of 17 children were recruited in the experiments wearing PGRS to recognize three pathological gaits (toe-in, toe-out, and flat) and normal gait. Children are asked to walk naturally on level ground in the dynamic section or stand naturally and comfortably in the static section. The evaluation of the performance of recognition results included stratified tenfold cross-validation with recall, precision, and a time cost as metrics.

resultsThe experimental results show that all of the IGRMs have been identified with a practically applicable degree of average accuracy either in the dynamic or static section. Experimental results indicate that the IGRM has 92.41% and 97.79% intra-subject recognition accuracy, and 85.78% and 78.81% inter-subject recognition accuracy, respectively, in the static and dynamic sections. And we find methods in the static section have less recognition accuracy due to the unnatural gesture of children when standing.

conclusionsIn this study, a low-cost PGRS has been verified and realize feasibility, highly average precision, and good real-time performance of gait recognition. The experimental results reveal the potential for the computer supervision of non-pathological and pathological gaits in the plantar-pressure patterns of children and for providing feedback in the application of gait-abnormality rectification.

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GaitWalkingChildFeedbackHumansMachine LearningFeature extractionGait classificationPathological gait recognitionPressure-sensor array

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