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Redundancy Reduction for Sensor Deployment in Prosthetic Socket: A Case Study
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Embedded systems, Electronic and embedded systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4911-0257
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Embedded systems, Electronic and embedded systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8488-3506
Res & Innovat, IS-110 Reykjavik, Iceland..
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Embedded systems, Electronic and embedded systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0061-3475
2022 (English)In: Sensors, E-ISSN 1424-8220, Vol. 22, no 9, p. 3103-, article id 3103Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The irregular pressure exerted by a prosthetic socket over the residual limb is one of the major factors that cause the discomfort of amputees using artificial limbs. By deploying the wearable sensors inside the socket, the interfacial pressure distribution can be studied to find the active regions and rectify the socket design. In this case study, a clustering-based analysis method is presented to evaluate the density and layout of these sensors, which aims to reduce the local redundancy of the sensor deployment. In particular, a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) and K-means algorithm are employed to find the clustering results of the sensor data, taking the pressure measurement of a predefined sensor placement as the input. Then, one suitable clustering result is selected to detect the layout redundancy from the input area. After that, the Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) is used as a similarity metric to guide the removal of redundant sensors and generate a new sparser layout. The Jenson-Shannon Divergence (JSD) and the mean pressure are applied as posterior validation metrics that compare the pressure features before and after sensor removal. A case study of a clinical trial with two sensor strips is used to prove the utility of the clustering-based analysis method. The sensors on the posterior and medial regions are suggested to be reduced, and the main pressure features are kept. The proposed method can help sensor designers optimize sensor configurations for intra-socket measurements and thus assist the prosthetists in improving the socket fitting.

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MDPI AG , 2022. Vol. 22, no 9, p. 3103-, article id 3103
Keywords [en]
pressure sensor system, prosthetic socket, redundancy detection, redundancy reduction, selforganizing map, Pearson correlation coefficient
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Medical and Health Sciences Surgery
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-313337DOI: 10.3390/s22093103ISI: 000796167900001PubMedID: 35590792Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85128402705OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-313337DiVA, id: diva2:1663458
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Available from: 2022-06-02 Created: 2022-06-02 Last updated: 2022-06-25Bibliographically approved

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