scholarly journals Sample Entropy of Human Gait Center of Pressure Displacement: A Systematic Methodological Analysis

Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samira Ahmadi ◽  
Nariman Sepehri ◽  
Christine Wu ◽  
Tony Szturm

Sample entropy (SampEn) has been used to quantify the regularity or predictability of human gait signals. There are studies on the appropriate use of this measure for inter-stride spatio-temporal gait variables. However, the sensitivity of this measure to preprocessing of the signal and to variant values of template size (m), tolerance size (r), and sampling rate has not been studied when applied to “whole” gait signals. Whole gait signals are the entire time series data obtained from force or inertial sensors. This study systematically investigates the sensitivity of SampEn of the center of pressure displacement in the mediolateral direction (ML COP-D) to variant parameter values and two pre-processing methods. These two methods are filtering the high-frequency components and resampling the signals to have the same average number of data points per stride. The discriminatory ability of SampEn is studied by comparing treadmill walk only (WO) to dual-task (DT) condition. The results suggest that SampEn maintains the directional difference between two walking conditions across variant parameter values, showing a significant increase from WO to DT condition, especially when signals are low-pass filtered. Moreover, when gait speed is different between test conditions, signals should be low-pass filtered and resampled to have the same average number of data points per stride.

Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 764 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McCamley ◽  
William Denton ◽  
Andrew Arnold ◽  
Peter Raffalt ◽  
Jennifer Yentes

Sample entropy (SE) has relative consistency using biologically-derived, discrete data >500 data points. For certain populations, collecting this quantity is not feasible and continuous data has been used. The effect of using continuous versus discrete data on SE is unknown, nor are the relative effects of sampling rate and input parameters m (comparison vector length) and r (tolerance). Eleven subjects walked for 10-minutes and continuous joint angles (480 Hz) were calculated for each lower-extremity joint. Data were downsampled (240, 120, 60 Hz) and discrete range-of-motion was calculated. SE was quantified for angles and range-of-motion at all sampling rates and multiple combinations of parameters. A differential relationship between joints was observed between range-of-motion and joint angles. Range-of-motion SE showed no difference; whereas, joint angle SE significantly decreased from ankle to knee to hip. To confirm findings from biological data, continuous signals with manipulations to frequency, amplitude, and both were generated and underwent similar analysis to the biological data. In general, changes to m, r, and sampling rate had a greater effect on continuous compared to discrete data. Discrete data was robust to sampling rate and m. It is recommended that different data types not be compared and discrete data be used for SE.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanyaolu Ameye ◽  
Michael Awoleye ◽  
Emmanuel Agogo ◽  
Ette Etuk

BACKGROUND The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019) is a global pandemic and Nigeria is not left out in being affected. Though, the disease is just over three months since first case was identified in the country, we present a predictive model to forecast the number of cases expected to be seen in the country in the next 100 days. OBJECTIVE To implement a predictive model in forecasting the near future number of positive cases expected in the country following the present trend METHODS We performed an Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model prediction on the epidemiological data obtained from Nigerian Centre for Disease Control to predict the epidemiological trend of the prevalence and incidence of COVID-2019. RESULTS There were 93 time series data points which lacked stationarity. From our ARIMA model, it is expected that the number of new cases declared per day will keep rising and towards the early September, 2020, Nigeria is expected to have well above sixty thousand confirmed cases. CONCLUSIONS We however believe that as we have more data points our model will be better fine-tuned.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 789
Author(s):  
David Kreuzer ◽  
Michael Munz

With an ageing society comes the increased prevalence of gait disorders. The restriction of mobility leads to a considerable reduction in the quality of life, because associated falls increase morbidity and mortality. Consideration of gait analysis data often alters surgical recommendations. For that reason, the early and systematic diagnostic treatment of gait disorders can spare a lot of suffering. As modern gait analysis systems are, in most cases, still very costly, many patients are not privileged enough to have access to comparable therapies. Low-cost systems such as inertial measurement units (IMUs) still pose major challenges, but offer possibilities for automatic real-time motion analysis. In this paper, we present a new approach to reliably detect human gait phases, using IMUs and machine learning methods. This approach should form the foundation of a new medical device to be used for gait analysis. A model is presented combining deep 2D-convolutional and LSTM networks to perform a classification task; it predicts the current gait phase with an accuracy of over 92% on an unseen subject, differentiating between five different phases. In the course of the paper, different approaches to optimize the performance of the model are presented and evaluated.


Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
Ildoo Kim

Multiscale sample entropy analysis has been developed to quantify the complexity and the predictability of a time series, originally developed for physiological time series. In this study, the analysis was applied to the turbulence data. We measured time series data for the velocity fluctuation, in either the longitudinal or transverse direction, of turbulent soap film flows at various locations. The research was to assess the feasibility of using the entropy analysis to qualitatively characterize turbulence, without using any conventional energetic analysis of turbulence. The study showed that the application of the entropy analysis to the turbulence data is promising. From the analysis, we successfully captured two important features of the turbulent soap films. It is indicated that the turbulence is anisotropic from the directional disparity. In addition, we observed that the most unpredictable time scale increases with the downstream distance, which is an indication of the decaying turbulence.


2018 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 97-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronakben Bhavsar ◽  
Na Helian ◽  
Yi Sun ◽  
Neil Davey ◽  
Tony Steffert ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 117793221877507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisuke Tominaga ◽  
Hideo Kawaguchi ◽  
Yoshimi Hori ◽  
Tomohisa Hasunuma ◽  
Chiaki Ogino ◽  
...  

Measuring the concentrations of metabolites and estimating the reaction rates of each reaction step consisting of metabolic pathways are significant for an improvement in microorganisms used in maximizing the production of materials. Although the reaction pathway must be identified for such an improvement, doing so is not easy. Numerous reaction steps have been reported; however, the actual reaction steps activated vary or change according to the conditions. Furthermore, to build mathematical models for a dynamical analysis, the reaction mechanisms and parameter values must be known; however, to date, sufficient information has yet to be published for many cases. In addition, experimental observations are expensive. A new mathematical approach that is applicable to small sample data, and that requires no detailed reaction information, is strongly needed. S-system is one such model that can use smaller samples than other ordinary differential equation models. We propose a simplified S-system to apply minimal quantities of samples for a dynamic analysis of the metabolic pathways. We applied the model to the phenyl lactate production pathway of Escherichia coli. The model obtained suggests that actually activated reaction steps and feedback are inhibitions within the pathway.


2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (10) ◽  
pp. 2165-2180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeshi Watanabe ◽  
Takahiro Takamatsu ◽  
Takashi Y. Nakajima

AbstractVariation in surface solar irradiance is investigated using ground-based observation data. The solar irradiance analyzed in this paper is scaled by the solar irradiance at the top of the atmosphere and is thus dimensionless. Three metrics are used to evaluate the variation in solar irradiance: the mean, standard deviation, and sample entropy. Sample entropy is a value representing the complexity of time series data, but it is not often used for investigation of solar irradiance. In analyses of solar irradiance, sample entropy represents the manner of its fluctuation; large sample entropy corresponds to rapid fluctuation and a high ramp rate, and small sample entropy suggests weak or slow fluctuations. The three metrics are used to cluster 47 ground-based observation stations in Japan into groups with similar features of variation in surface solar irradiance. This new approach clarifies regional features of variation in solar irradiance. The results of this study can be applied to renewable-energy engineering.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S Han ◽  
Nickolay Korabel ◽  
Runze Chen ◽  
Mark Johnston ◽  
Viki J. Allan ◽  
...  

AbstractBiological intracellular transport is predominantly heterogeneous in both time and space, exhibiting varying non-Brownian behaviour. Characterisation of this movement through averaging methods over an ensemble of trajectories or over the course of a single trajectory often fails to capture this heterogeneity adequately. Here, we have developed a deep learning feedforward neural network trained on fractional Brownian motion, which provides a novel, accurate and efficient characterization method for resolving heterogeneous behaviour of intracellular transport both in space and time. Importantly, the neural network requires significantly fewer data points compared to established methods, such as mean square displacements, rescaled range analysis and sequential range analysis. This enables robust estimation of Hurst exponents for very short time series data, making possible direct, dynamic segmentation and analysis of experimental tracks of rapidly moving cellular structures such as endosomes and lysosomes. By using this analysis, we were able to interpret anomalous intracellular dynamics as fractional Brownian motion with a stochastic Hurst exponent.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (22) ◽  
pp. 7628
Author(s):  
Yeon-Wook Kim ◽  
Kyung-Lim Joa ◽  
Han-Young Jeong ◽  
Sangmin Lee

In this study, a wearable inertial measurement unit system was introduced to assess patients via the Berg balance scale (BBS), a clinical test for balance assessment. For this purpose, an automatic scoring algorithm was developed. The principal aim of this study is to improve the performance of the machine-learning-based method by introducing a deep-learning algorithm. A one-dimensional (1D) convolutional neural network (CNN) and a gated recurrent unit (GRU) that shows good performance in multivariate time-series data were used as model components to find the optimal ensemble model. Various structures were tested, and a stacking ensemble model with a simple meta-learner after two 1D-CNN heads and one GRU head showed the best performance. Additionally, model performance was enhanced by improving the dataset via preprocessing. The data were down sampled, an appropriate sampling rate was found, and the training and evaluation times of the model were improved. Using an augmentation process, the data imbalance problem was solved, and model accuracy was improved. The maximum accuracy of 14 BBS tasks using the model was 98.4%, which is superior to the results of previous studies.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (19) ◽  
pp. 6679
Author(s):  
Isack Thomas Nicholaus ◽  
Jun Ryeol Park ◽  
Kyuil Jung ◽  
Jun Seoung Lee ◽  
Dae-Ki Kang

Anomaly detection is one of the crucial tasks in daily infrastructure operations as it can prevent massive damage to devices or resources, which may then lead to catastrophic outcomes. To address this challenge, we propose an automated solution to detect anomaly pattern(s) of the water levels and report the analysis and time/point(s) of abnormality. This research’s motivation is the level difficulty and time-consuming managing facilities responsible for controlling water levels due to the rare occurrence of abnormal patterns. Consequently, we employed deep autoencoder, one of the types of artificial neural network architectures, to learn different patterns from the given sequences of data points and reconstruct them. Then we use the reconstructed patterns from the deep autoencoder together with a threshold to report which patterns are abnormal from the normal ones. We used a stream of time-series data collected from sensors to train the model and then evaluate it, ready for deployment as the anomaly detection system framework. We run extensive experiments on sensor data from water tanks. Our analysis shows why we conclude vanilla deep autoencoder as the most effective solution in this scenario.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document