Table 5 Performance metrics of the best performing classifier (‘fair’ case) when the height is used as a criterion to select the subjects of the training subset.

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

Dataset

Features and algorithm

Subjects included in the training subset

Se (%)

Sp (%)

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

DOFDA

HCTSA features

Naive Bayes (Gaussian)

Tallest subjects (80%)

98.65

100.00

99.32

Random selection of users

97.38

100.00

98.67

All (fair distribution)

97.37

100.00

98.67

Shortest subjects (80%)

93.59

100.00

96.74

Erciyes

Own selection of features

SVM (quadratic kernel)

Tallest subjects (80%)

100.00

100.00

100.00

All (fair distribution)

99.62

99.18

99.40

Random selection of users

97.83

98.43

98.12

Shortest subjects (80%)

91.22

93.73

92.46

SisFall

HCTSA features

SVM (cubic kernel)

Tallest subjects (80%)

100.00

100.00

100.00

All (fair distribution)

99.78

99.96

99.87

Random selection of users

99.74

99.96

99.85

Shortest subjects (80%)

99.78

99.83

99.80

UMAFall

Own selection of features

KNN (Euclidean. 10 neighbors)

All (fair distribution)

98.93

98.73

98.83

Shortest subjects (80%)

100.00

96.05

98.01

Random selection of users

98.28

97.05

97.66

Tallest subjects (80%)

77.78

96.67

86.71

UP-Fall

Own selection of features

SVM (linear kernel)

Tallest subjects (80%)

100.00

97.83

98.91

Shortest subjects (80%)

100.00

97.67

98.83

All (fair distribution)

99.59

98.02

98.80

Random selection of users

99.65

97.56

98.60