Table 6 Performance metrics of the best performing classifier (‘fair’ case) when the Body Mass Index (BMI) 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)

Subjects (80%) with lowest BMI

100.00

100.00

100.00

Random selection of users

97.38

100.00

98.67

All (fair distribution)

97.37

100.00

98.67

Subjects (80%) with highest BMI

94.81

100.00

97.37

Erciyes

Own selection of features

SVM (quadratic kernel)

All (fair distribution)

99.62

99.18

99.40

Random selection of users

97.83

98.43

98.12

Subjects (80%) with lowest BMI

98.75

100.00

99.37

Subjects (80%) with highest BMI

99.36

100.00

99.68

SisFall

HCTSA features

SVM (cubic kernel)

All (fair distribution)

99.78

99.96

99.87

Random selection of users

99.74

99.96

99.85

Subjects (80%) with highest BMI

99.83

99.68

99.76

Subjects (80%) with lowest BMI

98.22

99.62

98.92

UMAFall

Own selection of features

KNN (Euclidean. 10 neighbors)

All (fair distribution)

98.93

98.73

98.83

Subjects (80%) with lowest BMI

100.00

95.77

97.86

Random selection of users

98.28

97.05

97.66

Subjects (80%) with highest BMI

94.38

98.25

96.29

UP-Fall

Own selection of features

SVM (linear kernel)

Subjects (80%) with highest BMI

100.00

100.00

100.00

Subjects (80%) with lowest BMI

100.00

97.62

98.80

All (fair distribution)

99.59

98.02

98.80

Random selection of users

99.65

97.56

98.60