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Oldřich Vyšata¹, Ondřej Ťupa², Aleš Procházka^2,3

¹Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Charles University, 500 03 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.

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Motion sensors accurately model gait but generate large data. T-distributed stochastic neighbour embedding with random forest classification achieved 98% accuracy in identifying ataxic gait, aiding clinical practice.

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Biomedical Engineering
Neurology
Data Science

Background:

Gait disorders significantly impact quality of life.
Motion sensors offer detailed gait analysis but create data challenges.
Effective data reduction and classification are crucial for clinical application.

Purpose of the Study:

To compare data reduction methods for gait analysis.
To evaluate classification of reduced gait data for clinical use.
To identify optimal methods for distinguishing between healthy and ataxic gait patterns.

Main Methods:

Utilized motion sensor data from 43 participants (23 with ataxic gait, 20 healthy).
Applied t-distributed stochastic neighbour embedding for data reduction.
Employed random forest classification on reduced data.
Analyzed 418 segments of straight gait patterns.

Main Results:

Achieved 98% accuracy in classifying ataxic gait versus healthy controls.
Demonstrated the effectiveness of t-distributed stochastic neighbour embedding preprocessing.
Random forest classifier showed high performance on reduced gait data.

Conclusions:

Data reduction techniques, specifically t-distributed stochastic neighbour embedding, are effective for gait analysis.
Random forest classification provides high accuracy for identifying gait disorders.
The proposed method shows promise for clinical application in gait disorder diagnosis.