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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Addressing Missing Data Challenges in Geriatric Health Monitoring: A Study of Statistical and Machine Learning Imputation Methods.

Gabriel-Vasilică Sasu, Bogdan-Iulian Ciubotaru, Nicolae Goga, Andrei Vasilățeanu

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Gabriel-Vasilică SasuFaculty of Automatic Control and Computers, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, 060042 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0009-0004-3135-6066
Bogdan-Iulian CiubotaruMilitary Equipment and Technologies Research Agency (METRA), Ministry of National Defence, Clinceni, 077025 Ilfov, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-4630-5654
Nicolae GogaThe Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, 060042 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-3812-9646
Andrei VasilățeanuThe Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, 060042 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-8239-3642

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In geriatric healthcare, missing data pose significant challenges, especially in systems used for frailty monitoring in elderly individuals. This study explores advanced imputation techniques used to enhance data quality and maintain model performance in a system designed to detect frailty insights. We introduce missing data mechanisms-Missing Completely at Random (MCAR), Missing at Random (MAR), and Missing Not at Random (MNAR)-into a dataset collected from smart bracelets, simulating real-world conditions. Imputation methods, including Expectation-Maximization (EM), matrix completion, Bayesian networks, K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Support Vector Machines (SVMs), Generative Adversarial Imputation Networks (GAINs), Variational Autoencoder (VAE), and GRU-D, were evaluated based on normalized Mean Squared Error (MSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), and R

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GeriatricsMachine LearningAgedAlgorithmsBayes TheoremFrailtyHumansMonitoring, PhysiologicSupport Vector Machinedeep learningfrailty detectiongeriatric healthcarehealth monitoring systemsmachine learningMARMCARmissing data imputationMNARwearable sensors

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PMID39943253
PMCPMC11820420

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