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Better understanding fall risk: AI-based computer vision for contextual gait assessment.

Jason MoorePeter McMeekinSamuel StuartRosie MorrisYunus CelikRichard WalkerVictoria HetheringtonAlan Godfrey
Published in: Maturitas (2024)
Contemporary research to better understand free-living fall risk assessment in Parkinson's disease (PD) often relies on the use of wearable inertial-based measurement units (IMUs) to quantify useful temporal and spatial gait characteristics (e.g., step time, step length). Although use of IMUs is useful to understand some intrinsic PD fall-risk factors, their use alone is limited as they do not provide information on extrinsic factors (e.g., obstacles). Here, we update on the use of ergonomic wearable video-based eye-tracking glasses coupled with AI-based computer vision methodologies to provide information efficiently and ethically in free-living home-based environments to better understand IMU-based data in a small group of people with PD. The use of video and AI within PD research can be seen as an evolutionary step to improve methods to understand fall risk more comprehensively.
Keyphrases
  • artificial intelligence
  • risk assessment
  • risk factors
  • deep learning
  • heart rate
  • big data
  • machine learning
  • gene expression
  • healthcare
  • cerebral palsy
  • blood pressure
  • climate change
  • data analysis