FINE TUNING OF A PRETRAINED GAIT MODEL FOR FRAILTY CLASSIFICATION PREDICTION

Laura McDaniel, Ime Essien, Yuxiang Guo, Ayush Gupta, Vineet Shenoy, Peter Abadir, Rama Chellappa · 2024

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Laura McDaniel and six co-authors present a 2024 study that adapts a walking-analysis model to detect frailty. Frailty is a state of greater weakness and risk that comes with aging, raising the chances of falls and hospital care. The team fine-tuned GaitBase, a model first built to recognize people by their walk, using medical data instead.

Their data came from motion-capture video of 64 people classed as non-frail, pre-frail, or frail. Image tools produced body silhouettes and boxes from each frame, and the model used both silhouette and color video. Small datasets are a known problem, so the team used data augmentation and cross-validation to strengthen the results. A fast video-based check could help clinicians spot frailty earlier.

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CREATORLaura McDaniel, Ime Essien, Yuxiang Guo, Ayush Gupta, Vineet Shenoy, Peter Abadir, Rama Chellappa
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE2 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11693144

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