Günaydın Batuhan, İkizoğlu Serhat
Department of Control and Automation Engineering, Faculty of Electric and Electronics, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), 34469 Maslak-Istanbul, Turkey.
Present Address: Calibration Engineer at AVL Research and Engineering TR, Abdurrahmangazi Mah., Atatürk Cad. No: 22 /11-12, 34885 Istanbul, Turkey.
Biomed Eng Lett. 2023 May 24;13(4):637-648. doi: 10.1007/s13534-023-00285-9. eCollection 2023 Nov.
The vestibular system (VS) is a sensory system that has a vital function in human life by serving to maintain balance. In this study, multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MFDFA) is applied to insole pressure sensor data collected from subjects in order to extract features to identify diseases related to VS dysfunction. We use the multifractal spectrum width as the feature to distinguish between healthy and diseased people. It is observed that multifractal behavior is more dominant and thus the spectrum is wider for healthy subjects, where we explain the reason as the long-range correlations of the small and large fluctuations of the time series for this group. We directly process the instantaneous pressure values to extract features in contrast to studies in the literature where gait analysis is based on investigation of gait dynamics (stride time, stance time, etc.) requiring long walking time. Thus, as the main innovation of this work, we detrend the data to give meaningful information even for a relatively short walk. Extracted feature set was input to fundamental classification algorithms where the Support-Vector-Machine (SVM) performed best with an average accuracy of 98.2% for the binary classification as or . This study is a substantial part of a big project where we finally aim to identify the specific VS disease that causes balance disorder and also determine the stage of the disease, if any. Within this scope, the achieved performance gives high motivation to work more deeply on the issue.
前庭系统(VS)是一个感觉系统,通过维持平衡在人类生活中发挥着至关重要的作用。在本研究中,多重分形去趋势波动分析(MFDFA)被应用于从受试者收集的鞋垫压力传感器数据,以便提取特征来识别与VS功能障碍相关的疾病。我们使用多重分形谱宽度作为区分健康人和患病者的特征。观察到多重分形行为更为显著,因此健康受试者的谱更宽,我们将此原因解释为该组时间序列中小波动和大波动的长程相关性。与文献中的研究不同,我们直接处理瞬时压力值来提取特征,文献中的步态分析基于对步态动力学(步幅时间、站立时间等)的研究,需要较长的行走时间。因此,作为这项工作的主要创新点,我们对数据进行去趋势处理,即使对于相对较短的行走也能给出有意义的信息。提取的特征集被输入到基本分类算法中,其中支持向量机(SVM)在二元分类(是或否)中表现最佳,平均准确率为98.2%。这项研究是一个大型项目的重要组成部分,我们最终的目标是识别导致平衡障碍的特定VS疾病,并确定疾病的阶段(如果有的话)。在此范围内,所取得的性能为更深入地研究该问题提供了强大的动力。