Knowledge Discovery from Activity Monitoring to Support Independent Living of People with Early Dementia

Hoda Nikamalfard, Huiru Zheng, Haiying Wang, Paul Jeffers, Maurice Mulvenna, PJ McCullagh, Mathieu Suzanne, Jonathan Wallace, Juan Carlos Augusto, William Carswell, Barbara Taylor, Kevin McSorley

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Abstract

Altered activity patterns are often the general symptoms experienced by people with dementia. The quantity and quality of patient’s daily activities such as their sleeping may be a reflection of their dementia condition and affect their quality of life. Monitoring patient’s activity patterns over different periods of time may help healthcare professionals with determining the patient’s cognitive impairment stage. In this research, we describe an activity pattern detection and visualization system developed to support the monitoring and assessment of activity patterns for people diagnosed with dementia, at the early stages of the disease. Analysis shows that rich information embedded in sensory data can provide useful knowledge for understanding patients’ activity patterns, detect unusual events and may also be useful for examining cognitive status.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUnknown Host Publication
PublisherIEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Pages910-913
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)978-1-4577-2177-9
Publication statusPublished (in print/issue) - Jan 2012
Eventthe IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI 2012) in conjunction with the 8th International Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors and the 7th International Symposium on Biomedical and Health Engineering - Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China
Duration: 1 Jan 2012 → …

Conference

Conferencethe IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI 2012) in conjunction with the 8th International Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors and the 7th International Symposium on Biomedical and Health Engineering
Period1/01/12 → …

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