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- Title
A Movement Classification of Polymyalgia Rheumatica Patients Using Myoelectric Sensors.
- Authors
Bawa, Anthony; Banitsas, Konstantinos; Abbod, Maysam
- Abstract
Gait disorder is common among people with neurological disease and musculoskeletal disorders. The detection of gait disorders plays an integral role in designing appropriate rehabilitation protocols. This study presents a clinical gait analysis of patients with polymyalgia rheumatica to determine impaired gait patterns using machine learning models. A clinical gait assessment was conducted at KATH hospital between August and September 2022, and the 25 recruited participants comprised 18 patients and 7 control subjects. The demographics of the participants follow: age 56 years ± 7, height 175 cm ± 8, and weight 82 kg ± 10. Electromyography data were collected from four strained hip muscles of patients, which were the rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, biceps femoris, and semitendinosus. Four classification models were used—namely, support vector machine (SVM), rotation forest (RF), k-nearest neighbors (KNN), and decision tree (DT)—to distinguish the gait patterns for the two groups. SVM recorded the highest accuracy of 85% among the classifiers, while KNN had 75%, RF had 80%, and DT had the lowest accuracy of 70%. Furthermore, the SVM classifier had the highest sensitivity of 92%, while RF had 86%, DT had 90%, and KNN had the lowest sensitivity of 84%. The classifiers achieved significant results in discriminating between the impaired gait pattern of patients with polymyalgia rheumatica and control subjects. This information could be useful for clinicians designing therapeutic exercises and may be used for developing a decision support system for diagnostic purposes.
- Subjects
POLYMYALGIA rheumatica; MACHINE learning; DECISION support systems; GAIT disorders; BICEPS femoris; MYOELECTRIC prosthesis; RECTUS femoris muscles; HIP exercises
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2024, Vol 24, Issue 5, p1500
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s24051500