TY - GEN
T1 - Sway Risk Analysis Based on Age Group Classification
AU - Ismail, Hafsa
AU - Radwan, Ibrahim
AU - Suominen, Hanna
AU - Waddington, Gordon
AU - Goecke, Roland
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - Human postural sway is the horizontal movement, which is generated to control a person's balance while walking or standing. Changes in postural sway patterns are a reflection of changes in brain signals and in physical health affected by a person's aging process. This increases the likelihood of falling. In this paper, we propose a method to estimate the age groups of elderly people based on the extracted sway measurements. These measurements are computed based on learning the postural sway signal from video footage only. Then, we use the person's real age and the estimated age group to define a risk of a fall for the elderly people becoming more likely. This may lead to an early intervention and help them to prevent serious falls or injuries by putting countermeasures in place, e.g. physical exercise regimes. The conducted experiments show the reliability of the proposed method to produce a risk analysis tool for elderly based on their estimated sway signals.
AB - Human postural sway is the horizontal movement, which is generated to control a person's balance while walking or standing. Changes in postural sway patterns are a reflection of changes in brain signals and in physical health affected by a person's aging process. This increases the likelihood of falling. In this paper, we propose a method to estimate the age groups of elderly people based on the extracted sway measurements. These measurements are computed based on learning the postural sway signal from video footage only. Then, we use the person's real age and the estimated age group to define a risk of a fall for the elderly people becoming more likely. This may lead to an early intervention and help them to prevent serious falls or injuries by putting countermeasures in place, e.g. physical exercise regimes. The conducted experiments show the reliability of the proposed method to produce a risk analysis tool for elderly based on their estimated sway signals.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85077847469&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8856843
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8856843
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 392
EP - 398
BT - 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019
Y2 - 23 July 2019 through 27 July 2019
ER -