Falls Risk Classification of Older Adults Using Deep Neural Networks and Transfer Learning

Prior research in falls risk classification using inertial sensors has relied on the use of engineered features, which has resulted in a feature space containing hundreds of features that are likely redundant and possibly irrelevant. In this paper, we propose using fully convolutional neural networks (FCNNs) to classify older adults at low or high risk of falling using inertial sensor data collected from a smartphone. Due to the limited nature of older adult inertial gait datasets, we first pre-train the FCNN models using a publicly available dataset for pedestrian activity recognition. Then via transfer learning, we train the network for falls risk classification. We show that via transfer learning, our falls risk classifier obtains an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 93.3%, which is 10.6% higher than the equivalent model trained without the use of transfer learning. Additionally, we show that our method outperforms other standard machine learning classifiers trained on features developed in prior research.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics - 24(2020), 1 vom: 26. Jan., Seite 144-150

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Martinez, Matthew [VerfasserIn]
De Leon, Phillip L [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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Date Completed 27.03.2020

Date Revised 27.03.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1109/JBHI.2019.2906499

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM295549254