A Pre-Study on Tremor Classification During Activities of Daily Living

Linda Büker, Sandra Hellmers, Andreas Hein

2025

Abstract

Motor impairments, such as tremors, are often measured with specific tests or rating scales. As these have some disadvantages, like an inter-rater reliability and a lack of representation of the everyday life, a sensor-based continuous and objective monitoring of activities of daily living could be a suitable alternative. According to the literature, the use of inertial measurement units attached to the tremor-dominant arm in combination with support vector machines or neural networks seem to be promising. However, many approaches have to be adapted individually. Therefore, we conducted a preliminary study with ten healthy participants, who were asked to perform conventional and simulated tremor movements during five different activities related to eating. These movements were recorded with inertial measurement units. We identified four different parameters calculated from the recorded data, that we used to train multiple support vector machines for a non-individualized approach. The overall median accuracy score was 0.75, which is comparable to the results reported in the literature. This shows that support vector machines may be a non-individualized approach for differentiating between tremor and non-tremor movements during activities of daily living.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Büker L., Hellmers S. and Hein A. (2025). A Pre-Study on Tremor Classification During Activities of Daily Living. In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-731-3, SciTePress, pages 805-812. DOI: 10.5220/0013307400003911

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf25,
author={Linda Büker and Sandra Hellmers and Andreas Hein},
title={A Pre-Study on Tremor Classification During Activities of Daily Living},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF},
year={2025},
pages={805-812},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013307400003911},
isbn={978-989-758-731-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF
TI - A Pre-Study on Tremor Classification During Activities of Daily Living
SN - 978-989-758-731-3
AU - Büker L.
AU - Hellmers S.
AU - Hein A.
PY - 2025
SP - 805
EP - 812
DO - 10.5220/0013307400003911
PB - SciTePress