Unsupervised Learning-Based Methodology for Detection of Postural Anomalies in Wheelchair Users.

Postural monitoring in wheelchair users is a topic of growing interest. The detection of changes in the sitting patterns of these patients may serve to detect changes in their functional status and be able to adapt rehabilitation early. For this reason, this paper presents a methodology for the detection of specific postural anomalies that, unlike previous works, adopts unsupervised learning. The proposed methodology involves data dimensionality reduction using Principal Component Analysis, and the application of K-means clustering to group different normal posture states. The anomalies are detected using a threshold approach, where data points that fall outside a certain threshold are considered as anomalies. The results show that the methodology is effective in identifying anomalies with a high degree of accuracy (around 90%).