GaitTrack: Health monitoring of body motion from spatio-temporal parameters of simple smart phones

Qian Cheng, Joshua Juen, Yanen Li, Valentin Prieto-Centurion, Jerry A. Krishnan, Bruce R. Schatz

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Abstract

Detecting abnormal health is an important issue for mobile health, especially for chronic diseases. We present a free-living health monitoring system based on simple standalone smart phones, which can accurately compute walking speed. This phone app can be used to validate status of the major chronic condition, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), by estimating gait speed of actual patients. We first show that smart phone sensors are as accurate for monitoring gait as expensive medical accelerometers. We then propose a new method of computing human body motion to estimate gait speed from the spatio-temporal gait parameters generated by regular phone sensors. The raw sensor data is processed in both time and frequency domain and pruned by a smoothing algorithm to eliminate noise. After that, eight gait parameters are selected as the input vector of a support vector regression model to estimate gait speed. For trained subjects, the overall root mean square error of absolute gait speed is <0.088 m/s, and the error rate is <6.11%. We design GaitTrack, a free living health monitor which runs on Android smart phones and integrates known activity recognition and position adjustment technology. The GaitTrack system enables the phone to be carried normally for health monitoring by transforming carried spatio-temporal motion into stable human body motion with energy saving sensor control for continuous tracking. We present validation by monitoring COPD patients during timed walk tests and healthy subjects during free-living walking. We show that COPD patients can be detected by spatio-temporal motion and abnormal health status of healthy subjects can be detected by personalized trained models with accuracy >84%.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2013 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, ACM-BCB 2013
Pages897-906
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event2013 4th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, ACM-BCB 2013 - Wshington, DC, United States
Duration: Sep 22 2013Sep 25 2013

Publication series

Name2013 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, ACM-BCB 2013

Other

Other2013 4th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, ACM-BCB 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWshington, DC
Period9/22/139/25/13

Keywords

  • Chronic disease assessment
  • Free-living health monitoring
  • Gait speed
  • Smart phone application

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Bioengineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics

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