Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, December 19, 2020

Improving the activity recognition using GMAF and transfer learning in post-stroke rehabilitation assessment

No clue how this will help towards 100% recovery.  To me all assessment research is useless since there is never any followup that solves the problems that the assessment points out.

A GMAF is a novel technique to encode time series data into images, it employs the polar-coordinates representation of the data written in a matrix form called the Gramian matrix where each element is either the summation (GASF) of the cosines of the angles or difference (GADF). 

Improving the activity recognition using GMAF and transfer learning in post-stroke rehabilitation assessment

Issam Boukhennoufa, Xiaojun Zhai*,Klaus D. McDonald-Maier
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
University of Essex
Colchester, United Kingdom
xzhai@essex.ac.uk
Victor Utti, Jo Jackson
School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
University of Essex
Colchester, United Kingdom

Abstract

—An important part of developing a performant
assessment algorithm for post-stroke rehabilitation is to achieve
a high-precision activity recognition. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are known to give very accurate results, however
they require the data to be of a specific structure that differs
from the sequential time-series format typically collected from
wearable sensors. In this paper, we describe models to improve
the activity recognition using the CNN classifier. At first by
modifying the Gramian angular field algorithm by encoding all
the sensors’ channels from a single time window into a single
2D image allows to map the maximum activity characteristics.
Feeding the resulting images to a simple 1D CNN classifier
improves the accuracy of the test data from 94% for the
traditional segmentation approach to 97.06%. Subsequently, we
convert the 2D images into the RGB format and use a 2D CNN
classifier. This results in increasing the test data accuracy to
97.52%. Finally, we employ transfer learning with the popular
VGG 16 model to the RGB images, which yields to improving
the accuracy further more to reach 98.53%.
Index Terms—Stroke, GMAF, CNN, Activity recognition,
Transfer learning. 

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