Title :
FRAT-Up, a Rule-Based System Evaluating Fall Risk in the Elderly
Author :
Cattelani, Luca ; Chesani, Federico ; Palumbo, P. ; Palmerini, Luca ; Bandinelli, Stefania ; Becker, C. ; Chiari, Lorenzo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr., Electron., & Inf. Eng., Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Abstract :
About one-third of persons over 65 are subject to at least one fall during a year, and many of them are subjected to health, psychological and financial consequences. A requirement to improve the effectiveness of preventive interventions is to timely identify subjects at higher risk. In this work we introduce the Farseeing Fall Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT-up), a software tool for evaluating the fall risk of a subject, based on known risk factors. The tool is based on probabilistic rules, generated automatically from a light ontology capturing the scientific findings about risk factors. FRAT-up has been tested on the In CHIANTI dataset, showing performances comparable with state-of-the-art tools.
Keywords :
geriatrics; handicapped aids; health care; knowledge based systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); risk management; FRAT-up; InCHIANTI dataset; elderly fall risk evaluation; farseeing fall risk assessment tool; financial consequences; health consequences; preventive interventions; probabilistic rules; psychological consequences; risk factors; rule-based system; software tool; Communities; Electronic mail; Geriatrics; Ontologies; Probabilistic logic; Semantics; Senior citizens; Accidental Falls; Aged; Odds Ratio; ROC Curve; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.2014.35
