FRAT-Up, a Rule-Based System Evaluating Fall Risk in the Elderly

Author

Cattelani, Luca ; Chesani, Federico ; Palumbo, P. ; Palmerini, Luca ; Bandinelli, Stefania ; Becker, C. ; Chiari, Lorenzo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Electron., & Inf. Eng., Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

27-29 May 2014

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

41

Abstract

About one-third of persons over 65 are subject to at least one fall during a year, and many of them are subjected to health, psychological and financial consequences. A requirement to improve the effectiveness of preventive interventions is to timely identify subjects at higher risk. In this work we introduce the Farseeing Fall Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT-up), a software tool for evaluating the fall risk of a subject, based on known risk factors. The tool is based on probabilistic rules, generated automatically from a light ontology capturing the scientific findings about risk factors. FRAT-up has been tested on the In CHIANTI dataset, showing performances comparable with state-of-the-art tools.

Keywords

geriatrics; handicapped aids; health care; knowledge based systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); risk management; FRAT-up; InCHIANTI dataset; elderly fall risk evaluation; farseeing fall risk assessment tool; financial consequences; health consequences; preventive interventions; probabilistic rules; psychological consequences; risk factors; rule-based system; software tool; Communities; Electronic mail; Geriatrics; Ontologies; Probabilistic logic; Semantics; Senior citizens; Accidental Falls; Aged; Odds Ratio; ROC Curve; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.2014.35

Filename

6881844