title: Tracking motor recovery in stroke survivors undergoing rehabilitation using wearable technology.
abstract: Quantitative assessment of motor abilities in stroke survivors undergoing rehabilitation can be a valuable feedback to guide the rehabilitation process. The Functional Ability Scale (FAS) part of Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT) is used to evaluate movement quality during performance of a set of functional motor tasks. In this paper, we show that information collected using body worn sensors such as accelerometers during performance of functional motor tasks by stroke survivors can be used to build accurate classifiers of FAS scores for individual tasks. We perform feature selection to improve classification accuracy and show that it is possible to estimate the total FAS score from a subset of functional motor tasks taken from the WMFT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA. spatel19@partners.org
authors.forename: Shyamal
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: Todd
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hester
authors.forename: Joel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stein
authors.forename: Metin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akay
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dy
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bonato
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000379:methods*; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology*; D020127:Recovery of Function / Q000502:physiology*; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation