Movement Complexities Kamiar Arminian

1st EU Fall Festival
Stuttgart, 24-25 March 2015
Daily activity and movement complexity in health,
aging and disease
Kamiar Aminian
lmam.epfl.ch
Activities of daily living
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Side
Back
Physical Activity
Tilting
g
Lyin
low activity
ion
t
i
s
Tran
high activity
Sittin
g
Tilting
Leaning
Standing
slow
Walking
fast
Main techniques for activity monitoring:
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Epoch detection
Trunk tilt
¨  Event detection
¨  Expert systems
event
¨  Machine learning
¨  Single sensor
¨  Multiple sensors
¨  Activity classification
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acc=1
acc=0
epoch
Smartphone
Bussmann et al.,1995, Veltink et al., 1996, Aminian et al., 1999, Ng J, et al., 2000, Bao et al., 2004, Ganea, Aminian et al, 2012, Godfrey et al.,
2011,Salarian, Aminian et al., 2007, Paraschiv-Ionescu, Aminian et al., 2004, Nyan et al., 2006
Main daily activities
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Lying
36%
Lying
36%
Walking
7%
Time, min
Standing
9%
Sitting
48%
Multi-scale Analysis
Possible fall risk related activity metrics
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Transfer
•  sit-stand duration
•  number of transfer
Activity
Pattern
•  duration
•  frequency
•  sit-stand smoothness
•  gait symmetry
•  gait velocity/cadence
•  gait variability
•  walking distribution
Global
index?
Changes with aging and disease
•  power-law
•  short activity
•  long rest
Ganea, Aminian et al. (2012) IEEE TMBE, Ganea, Aminian et al. (2011), Med Phys&Eng. A. Paraschiv-Ionescu, Aminian et al., Scientific Reports, 2013
Complexity concept
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Interaction of a myriad of structural units enabling
the organism to adapt to the stresses of daily life
Reduction in physiological inputs
and their connections over time
Loss of complexity
in the output signal
Loss of functional ability
frailty
[Physiological complexity, aging, and the path to frailty LA Lipsitz - Science's SAGE KE, 2004]
Physiological complexity
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Fractals behavior
Self-similar structure
A.L. Golberger, PNAS, 2002, A.L. Golberger, Lancet, 1996
Self-similar dynamics
Movement complexity:
Fractal behavior of stride intervals
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fractal
scaling index (α) is 0.56 forrandom
the elderly subject and 1.04 for the young subject.
α= 0.5à the signal is random
0.5 < α ≤ 1àpresence of long-range (fractal like) correlations
Hausdorff et al. / Physica A 302 (2001)
Movement complexity:
Fractal behavior of walking episodes
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Walking
episode
duration, sec
1000 episodes
(5 days)
200 episodes
50 episodes
A. Paraschiv-Ionescu et al.,
Physical Review E, 2008
Movement complexity:
Fractal behavior of walking episodes (5 days)
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healthy
chronic pain
A. Paraschiv-Ionescu and K. Aminian (2009) in A. Na¨ıt-Ali (ed.), Advanced Biosignal Processing,
Using barcode as complexity measure 11
Lying
36%
Lying
36%
barcode?
Time, min
Walking
7%
Standing
9%
Sitting
48%
Mapping physical activity onto states
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Entropy measures:
• Entropy
• Lempel-Ziv
• Weighted
Permutation
Entropy
Paraschiv-Ionescu et al. (2012) , PLoS ONE
Physical activity barcode
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Painfull Pain free Seconds Physical behavior and Complexity in aging
Subjects: N=100
¨  Age: 41-98 y.o
¨  Smartphone recording:
7 days, 9hours/day
¨  Activity states & Barcodes:
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n 
n 
n 
n 
type: lying/sedentary, active, gait
intensity: activity counts, cadence
duration: walking (gait) bouts
18 states barcodes
Waist case belt used for
wearning the smartphone
Movement complexity
Fit, Pre-frail and Frail subjects
Frailty evaluation based on Fried criteria
¨  Fit (N=20), Pre-Frail (N=19), Frail (N=29)
¨  Activity recording: 2 days, 7h30min/day
¨  Fear of Falling evaluation based on questionnaire
¨  Number of falls
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Fried criteria
§  Sarcopenia or weight loss
§  Reduced muscular strength
eria riteria
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r
c
Fit: 0 il: 1-2 c
§  Slow walking speed
ra
§  Exhaustion
Pre-f + criteria
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§  Low activity level
Frail:
Conclusions
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¨ 
Today wearable technologies provide:
¤  long-term
monitoring of activity
behavior
¤  useful and interpretable metrics to
assess decline in motor function
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Movement complexity can provide a
global index of activity behavior
Thank you for your attention
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