N Papadakis, G Tzagarakis, N Kampams, K Savakis, P Katonis, K Stergiopoulos, D G Christakis (2009) The velocity effect on GEDEM measurements In: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mobilizing Health Information to Support Healthcare-Related Knowledge Work, MobiHealthInf 2009 In Conjunction with BIOSTEC 2009 3-12 Abstract: Gait Evaluation Differential Entropy Measure (GEDEM) [1] is a new quantitative approach to evaluating the condition of a subject by monitoring the acceleration [2][3]. The approach is capable to identify medical conditions [2, 3] and is also not dependent on age, weight, height or BMI. The initial studies [4][5][6] required the walking on the ground along a straight line for 20-30 seconds. Due to the promising results of the method, work is currently carried out on a treadmill. The treadmill alleviates the constraint of long corridors, and additionally offers better control on the gait velocity, minimum deviation in the coronal plane, and less variability in the GEDEM values [7, 8]. This work investigates the relationship between the gait velocity and the GEDEM. The gait velocity is a measurement parameter that influences the gait acceleration spectrum and therefore it is expected to influence GEDEM values.
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