Pub Date : 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ad6acf
Marta Carrara, Riccardo Campitelli, Diletta Guberti, M Ignacio Monge Garcia, Manuela Ferrario
Objective.Arterial pulse wave analysis (PWA) is now established as a powerful tool to investigate the cardiovascular system, and several clinical studies have shown how PWA can provide valuable prognostic information over and beyond traditional cardiovascular risk factors. Typically these techniques are applied to chronic conditions, such as hypertension or aging, to monitor the slow structural changes of the vascular system which lead to important alterations of the arterial PW. However, their application to acute critical illness is not currently widespread, probably because of the high hemodynamic instability and acute dynamic alterations affecting the cardiovascular system of these patients.Approach.In this work we propose a review of the physiological and methodological basis of PWA, describing how it can be used to provide insights into arterial structure and function, cardiovascular biomechanical properties, and to derive information on wave propagation and reflection.Main results.The applicability of these techniques to acute critical illness, especially septic shock, is extensively discussed, highlighting the feasibility of their use in acute critical patients and their role in optimizing therapy administration and hemodynamic monitoring.Significance.The potential for the clinical use of these techniques lies in the ease of computation and availability of arterial blood pressure signals, as invasive arterial lines are commonly used in these patients. We hope that the concepts illustrated in the present review will soon be translated into clinical practice.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ad6529
Chunmiao Liang, Qinghua Sun, Jiali Li, Bing Ji, Weiming Wu, Fukai Zhang, Yuguo Chen, Cong Wang
Objective.In recent years, artificial intelligence-based electrocardiogram (ECG) methods have been massively applied to myocardial infarction (MI). However, the joint analysis of static and dynamic features to achieve accurate and interpretable MI detection has not been comprehensively addressed.Approach.This paper proposes a simplified ensemble tree method with a joint analysis of static and dynamic features to solve this issue for MI detection. Initially, the dynamic features are extracted by modeling the intrinsic dynamics of ECG via dynamic learning in addition to extracting classical static features. Secondly, a two-stage feature selection strategy is designed to identify a few significant features, which substitute the original variables that are employed in constructing the ensemble tree. This approach enhances the discriminative ability by selecting significant static and dynamic features. Subsequently, this paper presents an interpretable classification method named StackTree by introducing a stacked ensemble scheme to modify the ensemble tree simplification algorithm. The representative rules of the raw ensemble trees are selected as the intermediate training data that is used to retrain a decision tree with performance close to that of the source ensemble model. Using this scheme, the significant precision and interpretability of MI detection are thus comprehensively addressed.Main results.The effectiveness of our method in detecting MI is evaluated using the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and clinical database. The findings suggest that our algorithm outperforms the traditional methods based on a single type of feature. Additionally, it is comparable to the conventional random forest, achieving 97.1% accuracy under the inter-patient framework on the PTB database. Furthermore, feature subsets trained on PTB are validated using the clinical database, resulting in an accuracy of 84.5%. The chosen important features demonstrate that both static and dynamic information have crucial roles in MI detection. Crucially, the proposed method provides clear internal workings in an easy-to-understand visual manner.
目的:近年来,基于人工智能的心电图(ECG)方法被大量应用于心肌梗死(MI)。然而,如何通过对静态和动态特征的联合分析来实现准确、可解释的心肌梗死检测,还没有得到全面解决。本文提出了一种联合分析静态和动态特征的简化集合树方法,以解决 MI 检测中的这一问题。首先,在提取经典静态特征的基础上,通过动态学习对心电图的内在动态进行建模,从而提取动态特征。其次,设计了一种两阶段特征选择策略,以识别少数重要特征,这些特征可替代用于构建集合树的原始变量。这种方法通过选择重要的静态和动态特征来增强判别能力。随后,本文通过引入堆叠集合方案来修改集合树简化算法,提出了一种名为 StackTree 的可解释分类方法。原始集合树中具有代表性的规则被选为中间训练数据,用于重新训练一棵性能接近源集合模型的决策树。采用这种方案,可以全面解决 MI 检测的高精度和可解释性问题。我们使用 PTB 和临床数据库评估了我们的方法在检测 MI 方面的有效性。结果表明,我们的算法优于基于单一类型特征的传统方法。此外,在 PTB 数据库的患者间框架下,该算法的准确率达到了 97.1%,与传统的随机森林算法不相上下。此外,使用临床数据库验证了在 PTB 上训练的特征子集,结果准确率达到 84.5%。所选的重要特征表明,静态和动态信息在 MI 检测中都起着至关重要的作用。最重要的是,所提出的方法以易于理解的可视化方式提供了清晰的内部工作原理。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ad68c1
Richard Bayford, Rosalind Sadleir, Inéz Frerichs, Tong In Oh, Steffen Leonhardt
Scope. This focus collection aims at presenting recent advances in electrical impedance tomography (EIT), including algorithms, hardware, and clinical applications.Editorial. This focus collection of articles published by the journalPhysiological Measurementintroduces the Progress in EIT and Bioimpedance. It follows conferences in South Korea and Germany, that provided a platform for new research ideas.
{"title":"Progress in electrical impedance tomography and bioimpedance.","authors":"Richard Bayford, Rosalind Sadleir, Inéz Frerichs, Tong In Oh, Steffen Leonhardt","doi":"10.1088/1361-6579/ad68c1","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-6579/ad68c1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Scope</i>. This focus collection aims at presenting recent advances in electrical impedance tomography (EIT), including algorithms, hardware, and clinical applications.<i>Editorial</i>. This focus collection of articles published by the journal<i>Physiological Measurement</i>introduces the Progress in EIT and Bioimpedance. It follows conferences in South Korea and Germany, that provided a platform for new research ideas.</p>","PeriodicalId":20047,"journal":{"name":"Physiological measurement","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141793064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ad69fd
Niema M Pahlevan, Rashid Alavi, Jing Liu, Melissa Ramos, Antreas Hindoyan, Ray V Matthews
Objective.Instantaneous, non-invasive evaluation of left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) would have significant value in the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure. A new approach called cardiac triangle mapping (CTM) has been recently proposed, which can provide a non-invasive estimate of LVEDP. We hypothesized that a hybrid machine-learning (ML) method based on CTM can instantaneously identify an elevated LVEDP using simultaneously measured femoral pressure waveform and electrocardiogram (ECG).Approach.We studied 46 patients (Age: 39-90 (66.4 ± 9.9), BMI: 20.2-36.8 (27.6 ± 4.1), 12 females) scheduled for clinical left heart catheterizations or coronary angiograms at University of Southern California Keck Medical Center. Exclusion criteria included severe mitral/aortic valve disease; severe carotid stenosis; aortic abnormalities; ventricular paced rhythm; left bundle branch and anterior fascicular blocks; interventricular conduction delay; and atrial fibrillation. Invasive LVEDP and pressure waveforms at the iliac bifurcation were measured using transducer-tipped Millar catheters with simultaneous ECG. LVEDP range was 9.3-40.5 mmHg. LVEDP = 18 mmHg was used as cutoff. Random forest (RF) classifiers were trained using data from 36 patients and blindly tested on 10 patients.Main results.Our proposed ML classifier models accurately predict true LVEDP classes using appropriate physics-based features, where the most accurate demonstrates 100.0% (elevated) and 80.0% (normal) success in predicting true LVEDP classes on blind data.Significance.We demonstrated that physics-based ML models can instantaneously classify LVEDP using information from femoral waveforms and ECGs. Although an invasive validation, the required ML inputs can be potentially obtained non-invasively.
{"title":"Detecting elevated left ventricular end diastolic pressure from simultaneously measured femoral pressure waveform and electrocardiogram.","authors":"Niema M Pahlevan, Rashid Alavi, Jing Liu, Melissa Ramos, Antreas Hindoyan, Ray V Matthews","doi":"10.1088/1361-6579/ad69fd","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-6579/ad69fd","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Objective.</i>Instantaneous, non-invasive evaluation of left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) would have significant value in the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure. A new approach called cardiac triangle mapping (CTM) has been recently proposed, which can provide a non-invasive estimate of LVEDP. We hypothesized that a hybrid machine-learning (ML) method based on CTM can instantaneously identify an elevated LVEDP using simultaneously measured femoral pressure waveform and electrocardiogram (ECG).<i>Approach.</i>We studied 46 patients (Age: 39-90 (66.4 ± 9.9), BMI: 20.2-36.8 (27.6 ± 4.1), 12 females) scheduled for clinical left heart catheterizations or coronary angiograms at University of Southern California Keck Medical Center. Exclusion criteria included severe mitral/aortic valve disease; severe carotid stenosis; aortic abnormalities; ventricular paced rhythm; left bundle branch and anterior fascicular blocks; interventricular conduction delay; and atrial fibrillation. Invasive LVEDP and pressure waveforms at the iliac bifurcation were measured using transducer-tipped Millar catheters with simultaneous ECG. LVEDP range was 9.3-40.5 mmHg. LVEDP = 18 mmHg was used as cutoff. Random forest (RF) classifiers were trained using data from 36 patients and blindly tested on 10 patients.<i>Main results.</i>Our proposed ML classifier models accurately predict true LVEDP classes using appropriate physics-based features, where the most accurate demonstrates 100.0% (elevated) and 80.0% (normal) success in predicting true LVEDP classes on blind data.<i>Significance.</i>We demonstrated that physics-based ML models can instantaneously classify LVEDP using information from femoral waveforms and ECGs. Although an invasive validation, the required ML inputs can be potentially obtained non-invasively.</p>","PeriodicalId":20047,"journal":{"name":"Physiological measurement","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141860590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ad6746
Andrew Barros, Ian German Mesner, N Rich Nguyen, J Randall Moorman
Objective.The 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is routine in clinical use and deep learning approaches have been shown to have the identify features not immediately apparent to human interpreters including age and sex. Several models have been published but no direct comparisons exist.Approach.We implemented three previously published models and one unpublished model to predict age and sex from a 12-lead ECG and then compared their performance on an open-access data set.Main results.All models converged and were evaluated on the holdout set. The best preforming age prediction model had a hold-out set mean absolute error of 8.06 years. The best preforming sex prediction model had a hold-out set area under the receiver operating curve of 0.92.Significance.We compared performance of four models on an open-access dataset.
{"title":"Age prediction from 12-lead electrocardiograms using deep learning: a comparison of four models on a contemporary, freely available dataset.","authors":"Andrew Barros, Ian German Mesner, N Rich Nguyen, J Randall Moorman","doi":"10.1088/1361-6579/ad6746","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-6579/ad6746","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Objective.</i>The 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is routine in clinical use and deep learning approaches have been shown to have the identify features not immediately apparent to human interpreters including age and sex. Several models have been published but no direct comparisons exist.<i>Approach.</i>We implemented three previously published models and one unpublished model to predict age and sex from a 12-lead ECG and then compared their performance on an open-access data set.<i>Main results.</i>All models converged and were evaluated on the holdout set. The best preforming age prediction model had a hold-out set mean absolute error of 8.06 years. The best preforming sex prediction model had a hold-out set area under the receiver operating curve of 0.92.<i>Significance.</i>We compared performance of four models on an open-access dataset.</p>","PeriodicalId":20047,"journal":{"name":"Physiological measurement","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11334242/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141760279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Objective. Physiological data are often low quality and thereby compromises the effectiveness of related health monitoring. The primary goal of this study is to develop a robust foundation model that can effectively handle low-quality issue in physiological data.Approach. We introduce SiamQuality, a self-supervised learning approach using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as the backbone. SiamQuality learns to generate similar representations for both high and low quality photoplethysmography (PPG) signals that originate from similar physiological states. We leveraged a substantial dataset of PPG signals from hospitalized intensive care patients, comprised of over 36 million 30 s PPG pairs.Main results. After pre-training the SiamQuality model, it was fine-tuned and tested on six PPG downstream tasks focusing on cardiovascular monitoring. Notably, in tasks such as respiratory rate estimation and atrial fibrillation detection, the model's performance exceeded the state-of-the-art by 75% and 5%, respectively. The results highlight the effectiveness of our model across all evaluated tasks, demonstrating significant improvements, especially in applications for heart monitoring on wearable devices.Significance. This study underscores the potential of CNNs as a robust backbone for foundation models tailored to physiological data, emphasizing their capability to maintain performance despite variations in data quality. The success of the SiamQuality model in handling real-world, variable-quality data opens new avenues for the development of more reliable and efficient healthcare monitoring technologies.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-06DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ad66aa
Riki Shimizu, Hau-Tieng Wu
Objective.Sleep spindles contain crucial brain dynamics information. We introduce the novel non-linear time-frequency (TF) analysis tool 'Concentration of Frequency and Time' (ConceFT) to create an interpretable automated algorithm for sleep spindle annotation in EEG data and to measure spindle instantaneous frequencies (IFs).Approach.ConceFT effectively reduces stochastic EEG influence, enhancing spindle visibility in the TF representation. Our automated spindle detection algorithm, ConceFT-Spindle (ConceFT-S), is compared to A7 (non-deep learning) and SUMO (deep learning) using Dream and Montreal Archive of Sleep Studies (MASS) benchmark databases. We also quantify spindle IF dynamics.Main results.ConceFT-S achieves F1 scores of 0.765 in Dream and 0.791 in MASS, which surpass A7 and SUMO. We reveal that spindle IF is generally nonlinear.Significance.ConceFT offers an accurate, interpretable EEG-based sleep spindle detection algorithm and enables spindle IF quantification.
目的睡眠棘波包含重要的大脑动力学信息。我们介绍了新颖的非线性时频分析工具 "频率和时间的集中"(ConceFT),以创建一种可解释的自动算法,用于在脑电图数据中标注睡眠纺锤体,并测量纺锤体的瞬时频率(IFs):方法:ConceFT 可有效降低随机脑电图的流变性,提高主轴在时频表征中的可见度。我们的自动纺锤体检测算法 ConceFT-Spindle(ConceFT-S)使用 Dream 和 MASS 基准数据库与 A7(非深度学习)和 SUMO(深度学习)进行了比较。我们还量化了主轴中频动态。主要结果:ConceFT-S 在 Dream 和 MASS 中的 F1 分数分别为 0.765 和 0.791,超过了 A7 和 SUMO。我们发现纺锤体中频一般是非线性的:ConceFT提供了一种准确、可解释的基于脑电图的睡眠纺锤体检测算法,并能对纺锤体中频进行量化。
{"title":"Unveil sleep spindles with concentration of frequency and time (ConceFT).","authors":"Riki Shimizu, Hau-Tieng Wu","doi":"10.1088/1361-6579/ad66aa","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-6579/ad66aa","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Objective.</i>Sleep spindles contain crucial brain dynamics information. We introduce the novel non-linear time-frequency (TF) analysis tool 'Concentration of Frequency and Time' (ConceFT) to create an interpretable automated algorithm for sleep spindle annotation in EEG data and to measure spindle instantaneous frequencies (IFs).<i>Approach.</i>ConceFT effectively reduces stochastic EEG influence, enhancing spindle visibility in the TF representation. Our automated spindle detection algorithm, ConceFT-Spindle (ConceFT-S), is compared to A7 (non-deep learning) and SUMO (deep learning) using Dream and Montreal Archive of Sleep Studies (MASS) benchmark databases. We also quantify spindle IF dynamics.<i>Main results.</i>ConceFT-S achieves F1 scores of 0.765 in Dream and 0.791 in MASS, which surpass A7 and SUMO. We reveal that spindle IF is generally nonlinear.<i>Significance.</i>ConceFT offers an accurate, interpretable EEG-based sleep spindle detection algorithm and enables spindle IF quantification.</p>","PeriodicalId":20047,"journal":{"name":"Physiological measurement","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141748779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ad65b1
Simon Lecoq, Jeanne Hersant, Pierre Abraham
Objective.In patients with suspected thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS), diagnosing inter-scalene compression could lead to minimally invasive treatments. During photo-plethysmography, completing a 30 s 90° abduction, external rotation ('surrender' position) by addition of a 15 s 90° antepulsion 'prayer' position, allows quantitative bilateral analysis of both arterial (A-PPG) and venous (V-PPG) results. We aimed at determining the proportion of isolated arterial compression with photo-plethysmography in TOS-suspected patients.Approach.We studied 116 subjects recruited over 4 months (43.3 ± 11.8 years old, 69% females). Fingertip A-PPG and forearm V-PPG were recorded on both sides at 125 Hz and 4 Hz respectively. A-PPG was converted to PPG amplitude and expressed as percentage of resting amplitude (% rest). V-PPG was expressed as percentage of the maximal value (% max) observed during the 'Surrender-Prayer' maneuver. Impairment of arterial inflow during the surrender (As+) or prayer (Ap+) phases were defined as a pulse-amplitude either <5% rest, or <25% rest. Incomplete venous emptying during the surrender (Vs+) or prayer (Vp+) phases were defined as V-PPG values either <70% max, or <87% max.Main results.Of the 16 possible associations of encodings, As - Vs - Ap - Vp- was the most frequent observation assumed to be a normal response. Isolated arterial inflow without venous outflow (As + Vs-) impairment in the surrender position was observed in 10.3% (95%CI: 6.7%-15.0%) to 15.1% (95%CI: 10.7%-20.4%) of limbs.Significance.Simultaneous A-PPG and V-PPG can discriminate arterial from venous compression and then potentially inter-scalene from other levels of compressions. As such, it opens new perspectives in evaluation and treatment of TOS.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ad65b2
Verena Werkmann, Nancy W Glynn, Jaroslaw Harezlak
Objective.We extract walking features from raw accelerometry data while accounting for varying cadence and commonality of features among subjects. Walking is the most performed type of physical activity. Thus, we explore if an individual's physical health is related to these walking features.Approach.We use data collected using ActiGraph GT3X+ devices (sampling rate = 80 Hz) as part of the developmental epidemiologic cohort study,I= 48, age =78.7±5.7years, 45.8% women. We apply structured functional principal component analysis (SFPCA) to extract features from walking signals on both, the subject-specific and the subject-spectrum-specific level of a fast-paced 400 m walk, an indicator of aerobic fitness in older adults. We also use the subject-specific level feature scores to study their associations with age and physical performance measures. Specifically, we transform the raw data into the frequency domain by applying local Fast Fourier Transform to obtain the walking spectra. SFPCA decomposes these spectra into easily interpretable walking features expressed as cadence and acceleration, which can be related to physical performance.Main results.We found that five subject-specific and 19 subject-spectrum-specific level features explained more than 85% of their respective level variation, thus significantly reducing the complexity of the data. Our results show that 54% of the total data variation arises at the subject-specific and 46% at the subject-spectrum-specific level. Moreover, we found that higher acceleration magnitude at the cadence was associated with younger age, lower BMI, faster average cadence and higher short physical performance battery scores. Lower acceleration magnitude at the cadence and higher acceleration magnitude at cadence multiples 2.5 and 3.5 are related to older age and higher blood pressure.Significance.SFPCA extracted subject-specific level empirical walking features which were meaningfully associated with several health indicators and younger age. Thus, an individual's walking pattern could shed light on subclinical stages of somatic diseases.
{"title":"Extracting actigraphy-based walking features with structured functional principal components.","authors":"Verena Werkmann, Nancy W Glynn, Jaroslaw Harezlak","doi":"10.1088/1361-6579/ad65b2","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-6579/ad65b2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Objective.</i>We extract walking features from raw accelerometry data while accounting for varying cadence and commonality of features among subjects. Walking is the most performed type of physical activity. Thus, we explore if an individual's physical health is related to these walking features.<i>Approach.</i>We use data collected using ActiGraph GT3X+ devices (sampling rate = 80 Hz) as part of the developmental epidemiologic cohort study,<i>I</i>= 48, age =78.7±5.7years, 45.8% women. We apply structured functional principal component analysis (SFPCA) to extract features from walking signals on both, the subject-specific and the subject-spectrum-specific level of a fast-paced 400 m walk, an indicator of aerobic fitness in older adults. We also use the subject-specific level feature scores to study their associations with age and physical performance measures. Specifically, we transform the raw data into the frequency domain by applying local Fast Fourier Transform to obtain the walking spectra. SFPCA decomposes these spectra into easily interpretable walking features expressed as cadence and acceleration, which can be related to physical performance.<i>Main results.</i>We found that five subject-specific and 19 subject-spectrum-specific level features explained more than 85% of their respective level variation, thus significantly reducing the complexity of the data. Our results show that 54% of the total data variation arises at the subject-specific and 46% at the subject-spectrum-specific level. Moreover, we found that higher acceleration magnitude at the cadence was associated with younger age, lower BMI, faster average cadence and higher short physical performance battery scores. Lower acceleration magnitude at the cadence and higher acceleration magnitude at cadence multiples 2.5 and 3.5 are related to older age and higher blood pressure.<i>Significance.</i>SFPCA extracted subject-specific level empirical walking features which were meaningfully associated with several health indicators and younger age. Thus, an individual's walking pattern could shed light on subclinical stages of somatic diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":20047,"journal":{"name":"Physiological measurement","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11326485/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141727658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ad45aa
Elyse Letts, Josephine S Jakubowski, Sara King-Dowling, Kimberly Clevenger, Dylan Kobsar, Joyce Obeid
Objective.Accelerometers are devices commonly used to measure human physical activity and sedentary time. Accelerometer capabilities and analytical techniques have evolved rapidly, making it difficult for researchers to keep track of advances and best practices for data processing and analysis. The objective of this scoping review is to determine the existing methods for analyzing accelerometer data for capturing human movement which have been validated against the criterion measure of direct observation.Approach.This scoping review searched 14 academic and 5 grey databases. Two independent raters screened by title and abstract, then full text. Data were extracted using Microsoft Excel and checked by an independent reviewer.Mainresults.The search yielded 1039 papers and the final analysis included 115 papers. A total of 71 unique accelerometer models were used across a total of 4217 participants. While all studies underwent validation from direct observation, most direct observation occurred live (55%) or using recordings (42%). Analysis techniques included machine learning (ML) approaches (22%), the use of existing cut-points (18%), receiver operating characteristic curves to determine cut-points (14%), and other strategies including regressions and non-ML algorithms (8%).Significance.ML techniques are becoming more prevalent and are often used for activity identification. Cut-point methods are still frequently used. Activity intensity is the most assessed activity outcome; however, both the analyses and outcomes assessed vary by wear location. This scoping review provides a comprehensive overview of accelerometer analysis and validation techniques using direct observation and is a useful tool for researchers using accelerometers.
{"title":"Accelerometer techniques for capturing human movement validated against direct observation: a scoping review.","authors":"Elyse Letts, Josephine S Jakubowski, Sara King-Dowling, Kimberly Clevenger, Dylan Kobsar, Joyce Obeid","doi":"10.1088/1361-6579/ad45aa","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-6579/ad45aa","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Objective.</i>Accelerometers are devices commonly used to measure human physical activity and sedentary time. Accelerometer capabilities and analytical techniques have evolved rapidly, making it difficult for researchers to keep track of advances and best practices for data processing and analysis. The objective of this scoping review is to determine the existing methods for analyzing accelerometer data for capturing human movement which have been validated against the criterion measure of direct observation.<i>Approach.</i>This scoping review searched 14 academic and 5 grey databases. Two independent raters screened by title and abstract, then full text. Data were extracted using Microsoft Excel and checked by an independent reviewer.<i>Main</i><i>results.</i>The search yielded 1039 papers and the final analysis included 115 papers. A total of 71 unique accelerometer models were used across a total of 4217 participants. While all studies underwent validation from direct observation, most direct observation occurred live (55%) or using recordings (42%). Analysis techniques included machine learning (ML) approaches (22%), the use of existing cut-points (18%), receiver operating characteristic curves to determine cut-points (14%), and other strategies including regressions and non-ML algorithms (8%).<i>Significance.</i>ML techniques are becoming more prevalent and are often used for activity identification. Cut-point methods are still frequently used. Activity intensity is the most assessed activity outcome; however, both the analyses and outcomes assessed vary by wear location. This scoping review provides a comprehensive overview of accelerometer analysis and validation techniques using direct observation and is a useful tool for researchers using accelerometers.</p>","PeriodicalId":20047,"journal":{"name":"Physiological measurement","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140864659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}