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Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
; 2009: 6131-4, 2009.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-19965072
ABSTRACT
Pressure ulcers are common problems for bedridden patients. Caregivers need to reposition the sleeping posture of a patient every two hours in order to reduce the risk of getting ulcers. This study presents the use of Kurtosis and skewness estimation, principal component analysis (PCA) and support vector machines (SVMs) for sleeping posture classification using cost-effective pressure sensitive mattress that can help caregivers to make correct sleeping posture changes for the prevention of pressure ulcers.