Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 6126: Acceleration Magnitude at Impact Following Loss of Balance Can Be Estimated Using Deep Learning Model

Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 6126: Acceleration Magnitude at Impact Following Loss of Balance Can Be Estimated Using Deep Learning Model Sensors doi: 10.3390/s20216126 Authors: Tae Hyong Kim Ahnryul Choi Hyun Mu Heo Hyunggun Kim Joung Hwan Mun Pre-impact fall detection can detect a fall before a body segment hits the ground. When it is integrated with a protective system, it can directly prevent an injury due to hitting the ground. An impact acceleration peak magnitude is one of key measurement factors that can affect the severity of an injury. It can be used as a design parameter for wearable protective devices to prevent injuries. In our study, a novel method is proposed to predict an impact acceleration magnitude after loss of balance using a single inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor and a sequential-based deep learning model. Twenty-four healthy participants participated in this study for fall experiments. Each participant worn a single IMU sensor on the waist to collect tri-axial accelerometer and angular velocity data. A deep learning method, bi-directional long short-term memory (LSTM) regression, is applied to predict a fall’s impact acceleration magnitude prior to fall impact (a fall in five directions). To improve prediction performance, a data augmentation technique with increment of dataset is applied. Our proposed model showed a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 6.69 ± 0.33% with r value of 0.93 when all three di...
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