Title
Appropriate Mother Wavelets for Continuous Gait Event Detection Based on Time-Frequency Analysis for Hemiplegic and Healthy Individuals.
Abstract
Gait event detection is a crucial step towards the effective assessment and rehabilitation of motor dysfunctions. Recently, the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) based methods have been increasingly proposed for gait event detection due to their robustness. However, few investigations on determining the appropriate mother wavelet with proper selection criteria have been performed, especially for hemiplegic patients. In this study, the performances of commonly used mother wavelets in detecting gait events were systematically investigated. The acceleration signals from the tibialis anterior muscle of both healthy and hemiplegic subjects were recorded during ground walking and the two core gait events of heel strike (HS) and toe off (TO) were detected from the signal recordings by a CWT algorithm with different mother wavelets. Our results showed that the overall performance of the CWT algorithm in detecting the two gait events was significantly different when using various mother wavelets. By using different wavelet selection criteria, we also found that the accuracy criteria based on time-error minimization and F1-score maximization could provide the appropriate mother wavelet for gait event detection. The findings from this study will provide an insight on the selection of an appropriate mother wavelet for gait event detection and facilitate the development of adequate rehabilitation aids.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19163462
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
gait event detection,hemiplegic gait,appropriate mother wavelet,acceleration signal,wavelet-selection criteria
Hemiplegic gait,Pattern recognition,Gait,Robustness (computer science),Electronic engineering,Continuous wavelet transform,Artificial intelligence,Time–frequency analysis,Engineering,Wavelet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
16
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.50
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ning Ji130.50
Hui Zhou24114.35
Kaifeng Guo330.50
O. W. Samuel416122.87
Zhen Huang530.50
Lisheng Xu617839.09
Guanglin Li731457.23