Table 8 Performance metrics of the best performing classifier (‘fair’ case) when the gender 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)

Male subjects (testing with females)

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

Female subjects (testing with males)

95.26

100.00

97.60

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

Female subjects (testing with males)

97.29

98.06

97.68

Male subjects (testing with females)

96.53

98.15

97.34

SisFall

HCTSA features

SVM (cubic kernel)

Male subjects (testing with females)

100.00

99.92

99.96

All (fair distribution)

99.78

99.96

99.87

Random selection of users

99.74

99.96

99.85

Female subjects (testing with males)

99.00

99.85

99.42

UMAFall

Own selection of features

KNN (Euclidean. 10 neighbors)

All (fair distribution)

98.93

98.73

98.83

Random selection of users

98.28

97.05

97.66

Male subjects (testing with females)

95.35

98.02

96.68

Female subjects (testing with males)

97.93

91.81

94.82

UP-Fall

Own selection of features

SVM (linear kernel)

All (fair distribution)

99.59

98.02

98.80

Male subjects (testing with females)

99.10

98.31

98.70

Random selection of users

99.65

97.56

98.60

Female subjects (testing with males)

98.51

95.56

97.02