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Table 4 Fall-risk assessment model type, validation method, accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity

From: Review of fall risk assessment in geriatric populations using inertial sensors

Author

Model

Model validation

Accuracy (%)

Specificity (%)

Sensitivity (%)

Caby et al., 2011* [41]

Radial basis function neural network, support vector, k-nearest neighbour, and naive Bayesian classifiers

Leave-one-out cross-validation

75-100

40-100

93-100

Giansanti et al., 2008*† [48]

Multi-layer perceptron neural network

47:53 split (Train:Test)

97

97

98

Giansanti et al., 2006*† [46]

Mahalanobis cluster analysis

47:53 split (Train:Test)

93.5-94.5

93-94

93.9-94.9

Giansanti et al., 2008*† [47]

Multi-layer perceptron neural network

47:53 split (Train:Test)

88-91

88-92

88-91

Gietzelt et al., 2009* [49]

Decision tree

Not specified

90.5

91.0

89.4

Ganea et al., 2011* [45]

Logistic regression, ROC curve

Not specified

-

35-88

55-92

Weiss et al., 2011† [74]

Logistic regression

Not specified

63.4-87.8

50.0-83.3

65.2-91.3

Liu et al., 2011* [57]

Linear regression, linear discriminant classifier

Leave-one-out cross-validation

71

98.3

88.9

Marschollek et al., 2011‡ [61]

Logistic regression, decision tree

Stratified ten-times ten-fold cross validation

78-80

82-96

58-74

Marschollek et al., 2008* [59]

Logistic regression, classifier

Stratified ten-times ten-fold cross validation

65.5-89.1

15.4-60.4

78.5-99.0

Marschollek et al., 2009† [60]

Decision tree

Not possible due to limited sample size

90

100

57.7

Schwesig et al., 2012‡ [71]

Binary logistic regression, ROC curve

Not specified

-

42-61

63-100

Moe-Nilssen et al., 2005† [65]

Linear regression, ROC curve

Not specified

80

85

75

Bautmans et al., 2011† [40]

Logistic regression, ROC curve

Not specified

77

78

78

Greene et al., 2010† [50]

Logistic regression

80:20 split (Train:Test)

76.8

75.9

77.3

Doi et al., 2013‡ [44]

Logistic regression, ROC curve

Not specified

-

84.2

68.8

Marschollek et al., 2011‡ [62]

Logistic regression, classifier

Stratified ten-times ten-fold cross validation

70

78

58

Greene et al., 2012† [51]

Support vector machine

Ten-fold cross validation

71.5

68.4

65.4

Kojima et al., 2008† [53]

Regression, canonical discriminant classifier

Not specified

62.1

68.2

61.1

Senden et al., 2012* [72]

Linear regression, ROC curve

Not specified

AUC: 0.67-0.85

-

-

  1. AUC, Area under curve, ROC, receiver operating characteristic, Criterion classification method: *Clinical assessment, †Retrospective fall history, ‡Prospective fall history.