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mBalance: Detect Postural Imbalance with Mobile Devices
Céline Madeleine Aldenhoven, Lara Marie Reimer, Stephan Jonas
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10.3233/SHTI220344
Research Article
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume 293: dHealth 2022
Abstract

Background:

Postural imbalance can be adopted for the early detection of age-related diseases or monitoring the course of the disease treatment; especially in monitoring, frequent balance measurement is crucial. This is mainly done through regular in-person examinations by a physician currently. Feedback in between examinations is often missing.

Objectives:

This paper proposes mBalance, a mobile application that uses the Romberg test to detect postural imbalance. mBalance provides a camera-based, low-cost approach to measure imbalance frequently at home using mobile devices.

Methods:

Imbalance detection accuracy and usability was evaluated in two separate studies with 31 and 30 participants, respectively.

Results:

mBalance correctly detected imbalance with a sensitivity of 80% and a specificity of 87%. The study found good usability with no significant problems.

Conclusion:

Overall, this study solves the problem of postural imbalance detection by digitizing a validated balance test into an easy-to-use mobile application.

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