Table 7 Performance metrics of the best performing classifier (‘fair’ case) when the age 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)

Youngest subjects (80%)

100.00%

100.00

100.00%

Oldest subjects (80%)

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%

Erciyes

Own selection of features

SVM (quadratic kernel)

All (fair distribution)

99.62%

99.18

99.40%

Youngest subjects (80%)

98.74%

100.00

99.37%

Oldest subjects (80%)

98.07%

100.00

99.03%

Random selection of users

97.83%

98.43

98.12%

SisFall

HCTSA features

SVM (cubic kernel)

Youngest subjects (80%)

n.c.

99.56

n.c.

Oldest 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%

Subjects older than 50

98.03%

98.66

98.34%

Subjects younger than 50

30.67%

99.32

55.19%

UMAFall

Own selection of features

KNN (Euclidean. 10 neighbors)

Youngest subjects (80%)

n.c.

100.00

n.c.

Oldest subjects (80%)

100.00%

100.00

100.00%

All (fair distribution)

98.93%

98.73

98.83%

Random selection of users

98.28%

97.05

97.66%

UP-Fall

Own selection of features

SVM (linear kernel)

Oldest 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%

Youngest subjects (80%)

97.62%

97.83

97.72%

  1. n.c. not computable.