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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Frailty Level Classification of the Community Elderly Using Microsoft Kinect-Based Skeleton Pose: A Machine Learning Approach.

Ghasem Akbari, Mohammad Nikkhoo, Lizhen Wang, Carl P C Chen, Der-Sheng Han, Yang-Hua Lin, Hung-Bin Chen, Chih-Hsiu Cheng

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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Ghasem AkbariDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin 341851416, Iran.ORCID 0000-0001-8350-6901
Mohammad NikkhooDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran 1477893855, Iran.ORCID 0000-0002-8386-9021
Lizhen WangSchool of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
Carl P C ChenDepartment of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 33302, Taiwan.
Der-Sheng HanDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Bei-Hu Branch, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 10845, Taiwan.
Yang-Hua LinSchool of Physical Therapy and Graduate Institute of Rehabilitation Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 33302, Taiwan.
Hung-Bin ChenSchool of Physical Therapy and Graduate Institute of Rehabilitation Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 33302, Taiwan.
Chih-Hsiu ChengBone and Joint Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan 33333, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-5821-6099

Funding

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital CMRPD1J0152Healthy Aging Research Center EMRPD1L0411Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan 107-2221-E-182-018-MY3
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Abstract

Frailty is one of the most important geriatric syndromes, which can be associated with increased risk for incident disability and hospitalization. Developing a real-time classification model of elderly frailty level could be beneficial for designing a clinical predictive assessment tool. Hence, the objective of this study was to predict the elderly frailty level utilizing the machine learning approach on skeleton data acquired from a Kinect sensor. Seven hundred and eighty-seven community elderly were recruited in this study. The Kinect data were acquired from the elderly performing different functional assessment exercises including: (1) 30-s arm curl; (2) 30-s chair sit-to-stand; (3) 2-min step; and (4) gait analysis tests. The proposed methodology was successfully validated by gender classification with accuracies up to 84 percent. Regarding frailty level evaluation and prediction, the results indicated that support vector classifier (SVC) and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) are the most successful estimators in prediction of the Fried's frailty level with median accuracies up to 97.5 percent. The high level of accuracy achieved with the proposed methodology indicates that ML modeling can identify the risk of frailty in elderly individuals based on evaluating the real-time skeletal movements using the Kinect sensor.

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FrailtyAgedFrail ElderlyGeriatric AssessmentHumansMachine LearningSkeletonclassificationfeature extractionfrailty levelKinect datamachine learning

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PMCPMC8230520

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