title: Assessment of waist-worn tri-axial accelerometer based fall-detection algorithms using continuous unsupervised activities.
abstract: This study aims to evaluate a variety of existing and novel fall detection algorithms, for a waist mounted accelerometer based system. Algorithms were tested against a comprehensive data-set recorded from 10 young healthy subjects performing 240 falls and 120 activities of daily living and 10 elderly healthy subjects performing 240 scripted and 52.4 hours of continuous unscripted normal activities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Limerick, Ireland. alan.bourke@ul.ie
authors.forename: Alan K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Bourke
authors.forename: Pepijn
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: van de Ven
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gamble
authors.forename: Raymond
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: O'Connor
authors.forename: Kieran
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bogan
authors.forename: Eamonn
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: McQuade
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Finucane
authors.forename: Gearoid
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Olaighin
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nelson
mesh_terms: D000054:Acceleration; D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000465:Algorithms; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000379:methods*; D011187:Posture; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity