Measuring Upper-Extremity Use with One IMU

Hang Wang, Hang Wang, Mohamed Irfan Mohamed Refai, Bert-Jan F. van Beijnum

2019

Abstract

Discharge home from hospital can be a critical stage in the rehabilitation of patients with central neurological disorders such as stroke. The new skills and early recovery achieved in the hospital may be difficult to transfer to the home environment. This work addresses the monitoring of arm usage and proposed a new metric called Weighted Activity Counts (WAC) based on a sensing system that consists of only one inertial measurement unit (IMU). The proposed metric combines activity counts and the smoothness of the movement. This work defines Normalized Gross Energy Expenditure (NGEC) as the reference metric. WAC shows good performance under the validation protocol we designed (correlation coefficient r > 0.90). The optimal placement for the single sensor which can sufficiently and reliably describe arm usage is also explored in this work.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wang H., Refai M. and van Beijnum B. (2019). Measuring Upper-Extremity Use with One IMU. In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2019) - Volume 4: BIOSIGNALS; ISBN 978-989-758-353-7, SciTePress, pages 93-100. DOI: 10.5220/0007253400930100

in Bibtex Style

@conference{biosignals19,
author={Hang Wang and Mohamed Irfan Mohamed Refai and Bert-Jan F. van Beijnum},
title={Measuring Upper-Extremity Use with One IMU},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2019) - Volume 4: BIOSIGNALS},
year={2019},
pages={93-100},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007253400930100},
isbn={978-989-758-353-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2019) - Volume 4: BIOSIGNALS
TI - Measuring Upper-Extremity Use with One IMU
SN - 978-989-758-353-7
AU - Wang H.
AU - Refai M.
AU - van Beijnum B.
PY - 2019
SP - 93
EP - 100
DO - 10.5220/0007253400930100
PB - SciTePress