Pub Date : 2013-05-06DOI: 10.1109/BSN.2013.6575464
A. Gribok, W. Rumpler, R. Hoyt, M. Buller
The paper describes application of different types of functional regression for analysis and modeling of the data collected by wearable sensor systems. The data have been recorded from human subjects while they were staying in whole room calorimeter chamber for 48 hours. This allowed very accurate measurements of their oxygen consumption, energy expenditure and substrate oxidation. These physiological parameters are notorious for their inaccuracy when measured in field conditions. The subjects wore two types of body sensors: the Hidalgo Equivital™ (Cambridge, UK) physiological monitors with a telemetry thermometer pill and iPro Professional Continuous Glucose Monitoring System (CGMS) (Medtronic MiniMed, Inc, Northridge, CA). The data collected by these two systems and by the calorimeter chamber were subsequently analyzed off-line using the functional regression techniques. The energy expenditure, substrate oxidation, and body core temperature were used as response variables, while heart rate, respiratory rate, subcutaneous glucose concentration, and skin temperature were used as predictors. The results show that the 24-hours and instantaneous energy expenditure values can be inferred from instantaneous measurements of heart rate, respiratory rate and glucose concentrations. Also, the body core temperature can be inferred from heart rate, respiratory rate, glucose concentration, and skin temperature. The substrate oxidation was the most difficult parameter to infer and it can only be accomplished during the exercise activity.
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Pub Date : 2013-05-06DOI: 10.1109/BSN.2013.6575504
Xiaoxu Wu, Yan Wang, Chieh Chien, G. Pottie
Human motion monitoring with body worn sensors is becoming increasingly important in health and wellness. However, achieving a robust recognition of physical activities or gestures despite variability in sensor placement is important for the real-world deployment of body sensor networks. A novel self-calibration process of sensor misplacement based on repetitive motion signatures is proposed. A rotation matrix model is introduced to represent the impact of sensor misorientation. Dynamic time warping (DTW) is employed for choosing and synchronizing training and testing datasets. The information from repetitive motion signatures is then used to calibrate sensor misplacement. In this work, walking was used as an example of a motion signature that provides information for sensor misplacement calibration. To investigate the validity of this method, a large dataset of 57 walking traces over seven different subjects was collected. With the proposed algorithm, we show that in the lower body motion tracking experiment, step-length-measurement accuracy can be improved from 45.84% to 94.51%.
{"title":"Self-calibration of sensor misplacement based on motion signatures","authors":"Xiaoxu Wu, Yan Wang, Chieh Chien, G. Pottie","doi":"10.1109/BSN.2013.6575504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2013.6575504","url":null,"abstract":"Human motion monitoring with body worn sensors is becoming increasingly important in health and wellness. However, achieving a robust recognition of physical activities or gestures despite variability in sensor placement is important for the real-world deployment of body sensor networks. A novel self-calibration process of sensor misplacement based on repetitive motion signatures is proposed. A rotation matrix model is introduced to represent the impact of sensor misorientation. Dynamic time warping (DTW) is employed for choosing and synchronizing training and testing datasets. The information from repetitive motion signatures is then used to calibrate sensor misplacement. In this work, walking was used as an example of a motion signature that provides information for sensor misplacement calibration. To investigate the validity of this method, a large dataset of 57 walking traces over seven different subjects was collected. With the proposed algorithm, we show that in the lower body motion tracking experiment, step-length-measurement accuracy can be improved from 45.84% to 94.51%.","PeriodicalId":138242,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Body Sensor Networks","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129259983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-05-06DOI: 10.1109/BSN.2013.6575528
M. Batalin, Eric M. Yuen, B. Dolezal, Denise L. Smith, Christopher Cooper, J. Mapar
Despite significant advances in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and enhanced tactics, line of duty deaths (LODD) and injuries due to cardiovascular events in the emergency responder community, specifically fire service, remain at an unacceptably high level each year. To address the tragic loss of life and often debilitating injuries that are too prevalent in the fire service, the Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate, has created a Physiological Health Assessment System for Emergency Responders (PHASER) program. PHASER is charged to develop and deploy innovative technology solutions based on the fundamental medical understanding of risk factors to enhance health and safety of emergency responders. One of the outcomes of the program is a low-cost secure networked system — PHASER-Net — capable of remote physiological monitoring, risk profiling, risk mitigation and guidance of the individual emergency responders. The PHASER-Net system has been deployed at multiple fire departments across the country, as well as academic research laboratories for validation, testing and enhancement. From the days of initial deployments, the system proved vital by identifying individuals with high risk of cardiovascular events and providing targeted training guidance for risk mitigation and prevention.
{"title":"PHASER: Physiological Health Assessment System for emergency responders","authors":"M. Batalin, Eric M. Yuen, B. Dolezal, Denise L. Smith, Christopher Cooper, J. Mapar","doi":"10.1109/BSN.2013.6575528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2013.6575528","url":null,"abstract":"Despite significant advances in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and enhanced tactics, line of duty deaths (LODD) and injuries due to cardiovascular events in the emergency responder community, specifically fire service, remain at an unacceptably high level each year. To address the tragic loss of life and often debilitating injuries that are too prevalent in the fire service, the Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate, has created a Physiological Health Assessment System for Emergency Responders (PHASER) program. PHASER is charged to develop and deploy innovative technology solutions based on the fundamental medical understanding of risk factors to enhance health and safety of emergency responders. One of the outcomes of the program is a low-cost secure networked system — PHASER-Net — capable of remote physiological monitoring, risk profiling, risk mitigation and guidance of the individual emergency responders. The PHASER-Net system has been deployed at multiple fire departments across the country, as well as academic research laboratories for validation, testing and enhancement. From the days of initial deployments, the system proved vital by identifying individuals with high risk of cardiovascular events and providing targeted training guidance for risk mitigation and prevention.","PeriodicalId":138242,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Body Sensor Networks","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122632516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-05-06DOI: 10.1109/BSN.2013.6575479
A. Sano, Rosalind W. Picard
This paper presents the possibility of recognizing sleep dependent memory consolidation using multi-modal sensor data. We collected visual discrimination task (VDT) performance before and after sleep at laboratory, hospital and home for N=24 participants while recording EEG (electroencepharogram), EDA (electrodermal activity) and ACC (accelerometer) or actigraphy data during sleep. We extracted features and applied machine learning techniques (discriminant analysis, support vector machine and k-nearest neighbor) from the sleep data to classify whether the participants showed improvement in the memory task. Our results showed 60–70% accuracy in a binary classification of task performance using EDA or EDA+ACC features, which provided an improvement over the more traditional use of sleep stages (the percentages of slow wave sleep (SWS) in the 1st quarter and rapid eye movement (REM) in the 4th quarter of the night) to predict VDT improvement.
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Pub Date : 2013-05-06DOI: 10.1109/BSN.2013.6575488
Kevin T. Sweeney, Edmond Mitchell, J. Gaughran, T. Kane, R. Costello, S. Coyle, N. O’Connor, D. Diamond
Sleep apnea is a common sleep disorder in which patient sleep patterns are disrupted due to recurrent pauses in breathing or by instances of abnormally low breathing. Current gold standard tests for the detection of apnea events are costly and have the addition of long waiting times. This paper investigates the use of cheap and easy to use sensors for the identification of sleep apnea events. Combinations of respiration, electrocardiography (ECG) and acceleration signals were analysed. Results show that using features, formed using the discrete wavelet transform (DWT), from the ECG and acceleration signals provided the highest classification accuracy, with an F1 score of 0.914. However, the novel employment of just the accelerometer signal during classification provided a comparable F1 score of 0.879. By employing one or a combination of the analysed sensors a preliminary test for sleep apnea, prior to the requirement for gold standard testing, can be performed.
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Pub Date : 2013-05-06DOI: 10.1109/BSN.2013.6575484
Carlo Alberto Boario, Matteo Lasagni, K. Römer
Long-term accurate measurements of core body temperature are essential to study human thermoregulation in ambulatory settings and during exercise, but they are traditionally carried out using highly-invasive techniques. To enable a continuous unobtrusive monitoring of core body temperature on ambulatory patients and exercising athletes, we have designed a wireless wearable system that measures the tympanic temperature inside the ear, as well as skin and environmental temperature, and that allows remote monitoring of the collected measurements. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of the system and show that it can be used to identify the circadian rhythms of core body temperature, as well as to detect the variation in core body temperature due to prolonged physical exertion. We further describe the lessons learnt during a pilot deployment of our telemetric system on several athletes during the 5th Lübeck Marathon, and discuss the impact of environmental parameters such as temperature and wind on the accuracy and meaningfulness of the measured values.
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Pub Date : 2013-05-06DOI: 10.1109/BSN.2013.6575524
C. Clements, Derek Moody, Adam W. Potter, J. Seay, R. Fellin, M. Buller
Heavy loads often subject foot soldiers and first-responders to increased risk musculoskeletal injury (MSI). Identifying excessive loads in real-time could help identify when soldiers are at greater risk of MSI. Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) we derived a loaded (>35 kg) versus unloaded Naïve Bayesian classification model from 22 male Soldiers (age 20 ± 3.5 yrs, height 1.76 ± 0.09 m and weight 83 ± 13 kg). Using seven-fold cross validation we demonstrated that using only one feature our model accurately classifies heavily loaded versus unloaded over 90% of the time. This technique lends itself to use in real time accelerometry sensors and shows promise for more complex gait analysis.
重负荷经常使步兵和急救人员增加肌肉骨骼损伤(MSI)的风险。实时识别过度负荷可以帮助识别士兵何时面临更大的MSI风险。通过主成分分析(PCA)，我们建立了22名男性士兵(年龄20±3.5岁，身高1.76±0.09 m，体重83±13 kg)的加载(>35 kg)与卸载(>35 kg) Naïve贝叶斯分类模型。通过七重交叉验证，我们证明了仅使用一个特征，我们的模型就能在90%的时间内准确地对重负载和卸载进行分类。这项技术可以用于实时加速度计传感器，并有望用于更复杂的步态分析。
{"title":"Loaded and unloaded foot movement differentiation using chest mounted accelerometer signatures","authors":"C. Clements, Derek Moody, Adam W. Potter, J. Seay, R. Fellin, M. Buller","doi":"10.1109/BSN.2013.6575524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2013.6575524","url":null,"abstract":"Heavy loads often subject foot soldiers and first-responders to increased risk musculoskeletal injury (MSI). Identifying excessive loads in real-time could help identify when soldiers are at greater risk of MSI. Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) we derived a loaded (>35 kg) versus unloaded Naïve Bayesian classification model from 22 male Soldiers (age 20 ± 3.5 yrs, height 1.76 ± 0.09 m and weight 83 ± 13 kg). Using seven-fold cross validation we demonstrated that using only one feature our model accurately classifies heavily loaded versus unloaded over 90% of the time. This technique lends itself to use in real time accelerometry sensors and shows promise for more complex gait analysis.","PeriodicalId":138242,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Body Sensor Networks","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126943539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-05-06DOI: 10.1109/BSN.2013.6575520
B. Mortazavi, Nabil Alsharufa, S. Lee, M. Lan, M. Sarrafzadeh, Michael Chronley, C. Roberts
The use of accelerometers to approximate energy expenditure and serve as inputs for exergaming, have both increased in prevalence in response to the worldwide obesity epidemic. Exergames have a need to show energy expenditure values to validate their results, often using accelerometer approximations applied to general daily-living activities. This work presents a method for estimating the metabolic equivalent of task (MET) values achieved when users perform exergaming-specific movements. This shows the caloric expenditure achieved by active video games, based upon raw gravity values of accelerations. Results show that, while a fusion of sensors monitoring the entire body achieves the best results, sensors placed closest to the primary location of movement achieve the most accurate approximations to the METs achieved per activity as well as the overall MET achieved for the soccer exergame under consideration. The METs achieved approach 7, the value considered to be actual casual soccer game play.
{"title":"MET calculations from on-body accelerometers for exergaming movements","authors":"B. Mortazavi, Nabil Alsharufa, S. Lee, M. Lan, M. Sarrafzadeh, Michael Chronley, C. Roberts","doi":"10.1109/BSN.2013.6575520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2013.6575520","url":null,"abstract":"The use of accelerometers to approximate energy expenditure and serve as inputs for exergaming, have both increased in prevalence in response to the worldwide obesity epidemic. Exergames have a need to show energy expenditure values to validate their results, often using accelerometer approximations applied to general daily-living activities. This work presents a method for estimating the metabolic equivalent of task (MET) values achieved when users perform exergaming-specific movements. This shows the caloric expenditure achieved by active video games, based upon raw gravity values of accelerations. Results show that, while a fusion of sensors monitoring the entire body achieves the best results, sensors placed closest to the primary location of movement achieve the most accurate approximations to the METs achieved per activity as well as the overall MET achieved for the soccer exergame under consideration. The METs achieved approach 7, the value considered to be actual casual soccer game play.","PeriodicalId":138242,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Body Sensor Networks","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131689647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-05-06DOI: 10.1109/BSN.2013.6575463
Mohd. Noor Islam, J. Khan, M. Yuce
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is well known for accessing data from in body and on body devices. Extensive research has been done on Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for WBAN for different unlicensed ISM bands, such as 868MHz, 915MHz, 2.4MHz and 433 MHz. However, due to vast use of those frequencies for other applications, there is an unavoidable risk for healthcare application. Inductive link method is another conventional way to communicate with an implanted device. But some limitations are also there, such as low data rate and communication range is very low (few centimeters). To emphasize a patient's health safety and to evade the limitation of inductive link method, a new and different frequency band, Medical Implant Communication System (MICS) band (402–405 MHz), has been accepted worldwide for a small range (3 meters) communication between an external device and implanted devices only. But, different international communication authorities have put some rules and restrictions to use the MICS band. Therefore, it is necessary to design a MAC protocol that will comply with the rules and suitable for the traffics of implanted devices communication network. In this paper, we propose a MAC protocol for MICS band considering the proposed rules and probable traffics in the network. A categorization of all the possible traffics is done. The MAC protocol is verified based on our proposed traffic categorization and it is observed that eight patients, each having eight implants, can be monitored simultaneously.
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Pub Date : 2013-05-06DOI: 10.1109/BSN.2013.6575462
S. Thiemjarus, Apiwat Henpraserttae, S. Marukatat
This paper presents a study of two simple methods for reducing the complexity of the instance-based classification technique and demonstrates their use in device-context independent activity recognition on a mobile phone. A projection-based method for signal rectification has been implemented on an iPhone in order to handle with variation in device orientations. The transformation matrix is estimated on a ten-second dynamic data buffer. To search for a suitable set of training prototypes for iPhone implementation, an activity recognition experiment is conducted with twenty different device contexts performed by eight subjects. With the developed mobile application, the recognition results along with the user's location can be displayed on both iPhone and the web application in real time.
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