Forward-flexed posture detection for the early Parkinson'S disease symptom

With aging society coming, there are more and more elderly people having the aging-related chronic diseases, such as Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's diseases. In this study, a time-less linear transformation method is proposed to obtain tilting angles from single axis accelerometer data. By w...

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Published in2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) pp. 1181 - 1185
Main Authors Wen-Shao Wu, Wen-Yen Lin, Ming-Yih Lee
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2014
Subjects
accelerometer
Accelerometers
Accuracy
Algorithm design and analysis
Biomedical monitoring
early detection
Legged locomotion
Monitoring
Parkinson's disease
posture
tilting angle
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Summary:With aging society coming, there are more and more elderly people having the aging-related chronic diseases, such as Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's diseases. In this study, a time-less linear transformation method is proposed to obtain tilting angles from single axis accelerometer data. By wearing the previous designed posture monitor vest and with the proposed algorithm implemented, this wearable system can detect the forward-flexed posture which is frequently seen in the early symptom of Parkinson's disease, the festination. Detection of this posture is the necessary function for the festination detection system which can work as a quantitative tool for early detection of Parkinson's disease.
ISSN:1062-922X
2577-1655
DOI:10.1109/SMC.2014.6974074