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L Test Subtask Segmentation for Lower-Limb Amputees Using a Random Forest Algorithm

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Alexis L. McCreath Frangakis *
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Edward D. Lemaire
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Helena Burger
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Natalie Baddour
DOI:10.3390/s24154953delete
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Functional mobility tests, such as the L test of functional mobility, are recommended to provide clinicians with information regarding the mobility progress of lower-limb amputees. Smartphone inertial sensors have been used to perform subtask segmentation on functional mobility tests, providing further clinically useful measures such as fall risk. However, L test subtask segmentation rule-based algorithms developed for able-bodied individuals have not produced sufficiently acceptable results when tested with lower-limb amputee data. In this paper, a random forest machine learning model was trained to segment subtasks of the L test for application to lower-limb amputees. The model was trained with 105 trials completed by able-bodied participants and 25 trials completed by lower-limb amputee participants and tested using a leave-one-out method with lower-limb amputees. This algorithm successfully classified subtasks within a one-foot strike for most lower-limb amputee participants. The algorithm produced acceptable results to enhance clinician understanding of a person's mobility status (>85% accuracy, >75% sensitivity, >95% specificity).
Keywords:
L test
subtask segmentation
wearable sensor
random forest
machine learning
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