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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2013 Oct 1;42(3):600–612. doi: 10.1007/s10439-013-0917-0

Table 1.

Three feature sets were used as inputs to SVM. 1) General features, 2) Selected features.

General features Domain knowledge based selected
features
Data input
for feature
extraction
Accelerometer (Ax, Ay, Az)
and gyroscope (Gx, Gy, Gz) signals in all
3 directions of normalized RGC
- Resultant acceleration
(R=Ax2+Ay2+Az2
- Resultant Jerk (J=dRdt)
  • Mean

  • Standard deviation

  • Maximum

  • Minimum

  • Mean absolute value x¯=1Nk=1N|xk|

  • Skewness

  • Kurtosis

  • Energy

  • Number of slope sign changes

  • Number of zero crossings

  • Length of waveform

  • Dominant frequency using low-pass filter and FFT

Resultant acceleration features
  • Skewness (temporal shift)

  • Energy

  • Dominant frequency

  • Maximum acceleration

  • Minimum acceleration

  • Range of acceleration

Resultant jerk features
  • Skewness (temporal shift)

  • Mean jerk at heel contact

  • Absolute maximum jerk

  • Absolute minimum jerk

  • Range of jerk produced abs (max-min)

  • Jerk cost JC=0T|d3rdt3|2dt