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. 2019 May 14;19(10):2227. doi: 10.3390/s19102227

Table 3.

Sensor-based features extracted from the 7MW test.

Feature Sensor Description
Duration
[s]
Accelerometer/Gyroscope Total duration of the test
Cadence [steps/min] Accelerometer Cadence in the phase of the gait
SD Cadence Accelerometer Standard deviation of the Cadence
NJS
AP ML V
[m]
[35,54]
Accelerometer The Normalized Jerk Score during gait is computed for each step (i.e., between two consecutive heel strikes), then normalized to the step duration, and then averaged across all steps
NJS=T52TstartTend(a˙)2dt
where T is the duration (Tend − Tstart), a is the acceleration measured in m/s2.
PCI [35,57]
[-]
Accelerometer Phase Coordination Index (PCI). PCI measures gait coordination (i.e., the accuracy and consistency of the phase generation).
PCI=PhaseCV+1001Ni=1N|φi180°|180°
where PhaseCV is the Coefficient of Variation of the Phase.
φi is the ith phase, which measures the step time with respect to the stride time assigning 360° to each stride (gait cycle):
φi=360°hsS,i hsL,ihsL,i+1 hsL,i
where hsL(i) and hsS(i) denote the time of the ith heel strike of the legs with the long and short step times, respectively.
Range
AP ML V
[m/s2]
Accelerometer Range of the signal
RMS
AP ML V
[m/s2]
Accelerometer Root Mean Square (RMS) of the signal, s (it is a measure of dispersion):
RMS=1Ni=1N(si m)2
where N is the total number of points of the signal s, and m is the mean value mean(s)
Reg [10]
AP ML V [10]
[-]
Accelerometer Step and Stride regularity measured by means of the unbiased estimate of the autocorrelation function of the signal s:
Aunbiased=1N|n|i=1N|n|sisi+n
where N is the total number of points of the signal and n is the phase shift in number of samples.
First dominant period (Ad1) of the autocorrelation coefficient is an expression of the step regularity.
Second dominant period (Ad2) of the autocorrelation coefficient is an expression of the Stride regularity

ACRONYMS: AP: Antero-Posterior; ML: Medio-Lateral; NJS: Normalized Jerk Score; PCI: Phase Coordination Index; Reg: Regularity; RMS: Root Mean Square; SD: Standard Deviation; V: Vertical.