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Abstract

Physical activity has a strong influence on mental and physical health and is essential in healthy ageing and wellbeing for the ever-growing elderly population. Wearable sensors can provide a reliable and economical measure of activities of daily living (ADLs) by capturing movements through, e.g., accelerometers and gyroscopes. This study explores the potential of using classical machine learning and deep learning approaches to classify the most common ADLs: walking, sitting, standing, and lying. We validate the results on the ADAPT dataset, the most detailed dataset to date of inertial sensor data, synchronised with high frame-rate video labelled data recorded in a free-living environment from older adults living independently. The findings suggest that both approaches can accurately classify ADLs, showing high potential in profiling ADL patterns of the elderly population in free-living conditions. In particular, both long short-term memory (LSTM) networks and Support Vector Machines combined with ReliefF feature selection performed equally well, achieving around 97% F-score in profiling ADLs.

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Title
Classical Machine Learning Versus Deep Learning for the Older Adults Free-Living Activity Classification
Author
Muhammad Awais 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Chiari, Lorenzo 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ihlen, Espen A F 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Helbostad, Jorunn L 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Palmerini, Luca 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Department of Computer Science, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk L39 4QP, UK; Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering Guglielmo Marconi, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy; [email protected] (L.C.); [email protected] (L.P.) 
 Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering Guglielmo Marconi, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy; [email protected] (L.C.); [email protected] (L.P.); Health Sciences and Technologies Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy 
 Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7493 Trondheim, Norway; [email protected] (E.A.F.I.); [email protected] (J.L.H.) 
First page
4669
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
14248220
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2554708000
Copyright
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.