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  • Machine learning based walking aid detection in timed up-and-go test recordings of elderly patients [Elektronski vir]
    Ziegler, Andreas ...
    Frailty and falls are the main causes of morbidity and disability in elderly people. The Timed Up-and-Go (TUG) test has been proposed as an appropriate method for evaluating elderly individuals' risk ... of falling. To analyze the TUG's potential for falls prediction, we conducted a clinical study with participants aged 65 years, living in nursing homes. We harvested 138 TUG recordings with the information, if patients used a walking aid or not and developed a method to predict the use of walking aids using a Random Forest Classifier for ultrasonic based TUG test recordings. We achieved a high accuracy with an Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 96,9% using a 20% leave out evaluation strategy. Automated collection of structured data from TUG recordings - like the use of a walking aid - may help to improve fall risk tools in future.
    Type of material - conference contribution ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2020
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 47250435