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Early Detection of the Initiation of Sit-to-Stand Posture Transitions Using Orthosis-Mounted Sensors
Assistance during sit-to-stand (SiSt) transitions for frail elderly may be provided by powered orthotic devices. The control of the powered orthosis may be performed by the means of electromyography (EMG), which requires direct contact of measurement electrodes to the skin. The purpose of this study...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5751092/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29168769 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17122712 |
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author | Doulah, Abul Shen, Xiangrong Sazonov, Edward |
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description | Assistance during sit-to-stand (SiSt) transitions for frail elderly may be provided by powered orthotic devices. The control of the powered orthosis may be performed by the means of electromyography (EMG), which requires direct contact of measurement electrodes to the skin. The purpose of this study was to determine if a non-EMG-based method that uses inertial sensors placed at different positions on the orthosis, and a lightweight pattern recognition algorithm may accurately identify SiSt transitions without false positives. A novel method is proposed to eliminate false positives based on a two-stage design: stage one detects the sitting posture; stage two recognizes the initiation of a SiSt transition from a sitting position. The method was validated using data from 10 participants who performed 34 different activities and posture transitions. Features were obtained from the sensor signals and then combined into lagged epochs. A reduced number of features was selected using a minimum-redundancy-maximum-relevance (mRMR) algorithm and forward feature selection. To obtain a recognition model with low computational complexity, we compared the use of an extreme learning machine (ELM) and multilayer perceptron (MLP) for both stages of the recognition algorithm. Both classifiers were able to accurately identify all posture transitions with no false positives. The average detection time was 0.19 ± 0.33 s for ELM and 0.13 ± 0.32 s for MLP. The MLP classifier exhibited less time complexity in the recognition phase compared to ELM. However, the ELM classifier presented lower computational demands in the training phase. Results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm could potentially be adopted to control a powered orthosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-57510922018-01-10 Early Detection of the Initiation of Sit-to-Stand Posture Transitions Using Orthosis-Mounted Sensors Doulah, Abul Shen, Xiangrong Sazonov, Edward Sensors (Basel) Article Assistance during sit-to-stand (SiSt) transitions for frail elderly may be provided by powered orthotic devices. The control of the powered orthosis may be performed by the means of electromyography (EMG), which requires direct contact of measurement electrodes to the skin. The purpose of this study was to determine if a non-EMG-based method that uses inertial sensors placed at different positions on the orthosis, and a lightweight pattern recognition algorithm may accurately identify SiSt transitions without false positives. A novel method is proposed to eliminate false positives based on a two-stage design: stage one detects the sitting posture; stage two recognizes the initiation of a SiSt transition from a sitting position. The method was validated using data from 10 participants who performed 34 different activities and posture transitions. Features were obtained from the sensor signals and then combined into lagged epochs. A reduced number of features was selected using a minimum-redundancy-maximum-relevance (mRMR) algorithm and forward feature selection. To obtain a recognition model with low computational complexity, we compared the use of an extreme learning machine (ELM) and multilayer perceptron (MLP) for both stages of the recognition algorithm. Both classifiers were able to accurately identify all posture transitions with no false positives. The average detection time was 0.19 ± 0.33 s for ELM and 0.13 ± 0.32 s for MLP. The MLP classifier exhibited less time complexity in the recognition phase compared to ELM. However, the ELM classifier presented lower computational demands in the training phase. Results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm could potentially be adopted to control a powered orthosis. MDPI 2017-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5751092/ /pubmed/29168769 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17122712 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Doulah, Abul Shen, Xiangrong Sazonov, Edward Early Detection of the Initiation of Sit-to-Stand Posture Transitions Using Orthosis-Mounted Sensors |
title | Early Detection of the Initiation of Sit-to-Stand Posture Transitions Using Orthosis-Mounted Sensors |
title_full | Early Detection of the Initiation of Sit-to-Stand Posture Transitions Using Orthosis-Mounted Sensors |
title_fullStr | Early Detection of the Initiation of Sit-to-Stand Posture Transitions Using Orthosis-Mounted Sensors |
title_full_unstemmed | Early Detection of the Initiation of Sit-to-Stand Posture Transitions Using Orthosis-Mounted Sensors |
title_short | Early Detection of the Initiation of Sit-to-Stand Posture Transitions Using Orthosis-Mounted Sensors |
title_sort | early detection of the initiation of sit-to-stand posture transitions using orthosis-mounted sensors |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5751092/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29168769 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17122712 |
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