A proposal of a fall detection algorithm for a Multidevice Personal Intelligent Platform

Author

Estudillo-Valderrama, Miguel A. ; Roa, Laura M. ; Reina-Tosina, Javier ; Naranjo-Hernández, David

Author_Institution

Biomed. Eng. Group, Univ. of Seville, Seville

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper methodological and design issues about the development of a personal platform for the control and processing of data acquired from intelligent biomedical sensors are presented. This platform is designed in the context of a telehealthcare system for the elderly with chronic diseases, and one of its objectives is to monitor and detect fall events. The main feature of the device is its on-line personalization to the patient through adaptive knowledge generation in real-time, which will result in special time execution requirements. As a result a fall detection algorithm proposal is described and analyzed.

Keywords

biosensors; diseases; expert systems; health care; intelligent sensors; medical administrative data processing; patient monitoring; telemedicine; adaptive knowledge generation; chronic diseases; data control; data processing; elderly; fall detection algorithm; fall events; intelligent biomedical sensors; multidevice personal intelligent platform; patient monitoring; special time execution requirements; telehealthcare system; Biomedical monitoring; Biosensors; Design methodology; Detection algorithms; Diseases; Intelligent sensors; Patient monitoring; Process control; Proposals; Senior citizens;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

BioInformatics and BioEngineering, 2008. BIBE 2008. 8th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2844-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2845-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIBE.2008.4696756

Filename

4696756