Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
  • Aims and objectives
  • Supervision
  • Project history
  • Related projects
    • Ambulatory monitoring of tetraplegic patients
    • Post-operative patient monitoring
  • Thesis report outline
• Human Ambulation and Falls
  • Normal human walking
    • Gait cycle
  • Fall and ambulation monitoring
  • Maintaining balance
    • Balance systems
    • Motor and musculoskeletal balance response
  • Falls in the elderly
    • Numbers
    • Causes and effects
  • Related work in fall detection
    • CSIRO: Hospital without walls
    • DIANA Dementia care system
    • Government programs
• Belief Network Theory
  • Probability theory review
    • Basic probability theory
    • Bayesian and conditional probability
  • Belief networks
    • Theory
    • Belief network construction
  • Dynamic belief networks
    • Theory
  • Applications
  • Existing software
• System Design Overview
  • Datalogger
    • Datalogger communications
  • Sensors
  • Software
    • Receiving data
    • Feature extraction
    • DBN engine
    • Belief extraction
    • User interfaces
    • DBN models
• The Siesta Datalogger
  • Features
    • Data Communications and Storage
  • Datalogger interface software
    • SiestaView
  • Compumedics sensors
• Sensors
  • Piezoelectric accelerometers
    • Piezoelectric effect
    • Placement and sensor response
    • Applicability
  • FSR pressure transducers
  • Vermahide pressure transducers
    • Preliminary investigation of Vermahide pressure transducer
    • Design of final pressure transducer
    • Placement
    • Response
  • Electromyograph (EMG)
• Software
  • Data collection
  • Data interface
    • Channel splitting
  • Feature extraction
    • Evidence extraction
  • DBN engine
  • Belief extraction
  • User interface
    • Configuration
• DBN models
  • Support-1a DBN
    • Structure
    • Parameters
    • Feature extraction
  • Support-1b DBN
    • Parameters
  • Support-1c DBN
    • Parameters
  • Support-2 DBN
    • Structure
    • Parameters
  • Support-3 DBN
    • Structure
    • Parameters
  • Stumble-1 DBN
    • Structure
    • Feature extraction
    • Parameters
  • Stumble-2 DBN
    • Structure
    • Parameters
  • Stumble-3 DBN
    • Structure
    • Parameters
    • Feature extraction
• Experimental Results
  • Experimental methodology
  • Presentation of Results
  • Normal walking
    • Support-1a DBN
    • Support-1b DBN
    • Support-2 DBN
    • Support-3 DBN
    • Stumble-1 DBN
    • Stumble-2 DBN
    • Stumble-3 DBN
  • Tripping/stumbling
    • Support-1b DBN
    • Stumble-1 DBN
    • Stumble-2 DBN
    • Stumble-3 DBN
  • Missing data
    • Support-1a DBN
    • Support-1b DBN
    • Support-1c DBN
  • Jogging/running
    • Support-3 DBN
    • Stumble-3 DBN
• Discussion
  • Outcomes
    • Foot sensors
    • Software
    • Problems and difficulties encountered
  • Further development
    • Vermahide pressure transducers
• Conclusion
• Software User Documentation
  • Configuration command syntax
    • DBN reference network
    • Configuration commands
    • Feature and evidence extraction
    • Node watches
    • Default node states
    • CPT expression parameters
    • CPT expressions
  • Command-line interface
  • WinDBN software application
• Source code file listing
• Bibliography