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. 2019 Aug 27;7:28. doi: 10.1186/s40462-019-0172-6

Table 1.

Feature development. Candidate features developed to describe the three biomechanical descriptors used in this study: posture (#1), movement intensity (#2 to #5), and movement periodicity (#6 to #9)

S.No. Biomechanical
descriptor
Feature name Feature description Computation
1. Posture meanRoll Mean of data from roll axis ΣNmroll,wN (1)
2. Intensity stdRoll Standard deviation of data from roll axis std(mroll, w) (2)
3. meanAbsDiffRoll Mean of absolute values of time-differentiated roll data ΣNddtmroll,wN (3)
4. axMaxMeanAbsDiff Maximum, across axes, of mean of absolute values of time-differentiated data from each axis maxAroll,pitch,yawΣNddtmA,wN (4)
5. avgMeanAbsDiff Mean, across axes, of mean of absolute values of time-differentiated data from each axis Aroll,pitch,yawΣNddtmA,w3N (5)
6. Periodicity rollFftPeakPower

Maximum squared coefficient

of Fourier transform of data from roll axis

maxi1Lcfi,roll,w2 (6)
7. avgFftPeakPower Mean, across axes, of maximum squared coefficient of Fourier transform of data from each axis maxi1Lcfi,roll,w2+cfi,pitch,w2+cfi,yaw,w23 (7)
8. rollDiffFftPeakPower Maximum squared coefficient of Fourier transform of time-differentiated roll data maxi1Lδfi,roll,w2 (8)
9. avgDiffFftPeakPower Mean, across axes, of maximum squared coefficient of Fourier transform of time-differentiated data from each axis maxi1Lδfi,roll,w2+δfi,pitch,w2+δfi,yaw,w23 (9)

Features were computed on each two-second window w containing N = 200 calibrated triaxial magnetic field intensity values recorded along the roll (mroll), pitch (mpitch), and yaw (myaw) axes. Equation numbers are indicated on the right