Table 3 Performance metrics of the four best performing classifiers using fivefold cross validation and a ‘fair’ distribution of the samples between the training and testing subsets.

From: A study on the impact of the users’ characteristics on the performance of wearable fall detection systems

Dataset

Features

Algorithm and hyperparameters

Se (%)

Sp (%)

\(\sqrt{Se\cdot Sp}\)a

DOFDA

HCTSA

Naive Bayes (Gaussian)

97.37

100.00

98.67 ± 1.27%

HCTSA

SVM (linear kernel)

99.01

98.33

98.65 ± 1.77%

Own selection

KNN (Euclidean, 10 neighbors)

98.02

98.18

98.08 ± 2.08%

HCTSA

SVM (quadratic kernel)

99.34

96.67

97.97 ± 2.44%

Erciyes

Own selection

SVM (quadratic kernel)

99.62

99.18

99.40 ± 0.17%

Own selection

SVM (medium gaussian kernel)

99.34

98.98

99.16 ± 0.17%

Own selection

KNN (cosine, 5 neighbors)

99.07

99.05

99.06 ± 0.12%

Own selection

KNN (Minkowski, 5 neighbors)

99.45

98.64

99.04 ± 0.12%

SisFall

HCTSA

SVM (cubic kernel)

99.78

99.96

99.87 ± 0.13%

HCTSA

SVM (quadratic kernel)

99.78

99.96

99.87 ± 0.19%

HCTSA

SVM (medium gaussian kernel)

99.11

99.96

99.54 ± 0.12%

HCTSA

DT (Fine)

98.89

99.96

99.42 ± 0.23%

UMAFall

Own selection

KNN (Euclidean, 10 neighbors)

98.93

98.73

98.83 ± 0.86%

Own selection

DT (Coarse model)

98.38

98.99

98.67 ± 1.93%

Own selection

SVM (medium gaussian kernel)

97.87

99.24

98.55 ± 0.55%

Own selection

KNN (Euclidean, 5 neighbors)

98.93

97.97

98.45 ± 1.10%

UP-Fall

Own selection

SVM (linear kernel)

99.59

98.02

98.80 ± 1.31%

Own selection

SVM (medium gaussian kernel)

98.78

98.82

98.79 ± 1.32%

Own selection

KNN (Euclidean, 10 neighbors)

99.18

97.23

98.20 ± 1.31%

Own selection

KNN (Euclidean, 5 neighbors)

98.78

97.62

98.19 ± 1.65%

  1. aThe last column includes the standard deviation of the measurement of \(\sqrt{Se\cdot Sp}\) for the five-fold tests.