Marker-based classification of young–elderly gait pattern differences via direct PCA feature extraction and SVMs

Bjoern Eskofier, Peter Federolf, Patrick Kugler and Benno Nigg

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2013, vol. 16, issue 4, 435-442

Abstract: The classification of gait patterns has great potential as a diagnostic tool, for example, for the diagnosis of injury or to identify at-risk gait in the elderly. The purpose of the paper is to present a method for classifying group differences in gait pattern by using the complete spatial and temporal information of the segment motion quantified by the markers. The classification rates that are obtained are compared with previous studies using conventional classification features. For our analysis, 37 three-dimensional marker trajectories were collected from each of our 24 young and 24 elderly female subjects while they were walking on a treadmill. Principal component analysis was carried out on these trajectories to retain the spatial and temporal information in the markers. Using a Support Vector Machine with a linear kernel, a classification rate of 95.8% was obtained. This classification approach also allowed visualisation of the contribution of individual markers to group differentiation in position and time. The approach made no specific assumptions and did not require prior knowledge of specific time points in the gait cycle. It is therefore directly applicable for group classification tasks in any study involving marker measurements.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2011.624515

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