Optimising Personalised Medical Insights by Introducing a Scalable Health Informatics Application for Sensor Data Extraction, Preprocessing, and Analysis

Abstract

Wearable sensors, among other informatics solutions, are readily accessible to enable noninvasive remote monitoring in healthcare. While providing a wealth of data, the wide variety of such sensing systems and the differing implementations of the same or similar sensors by different developers complicate comparisons of collected data. An online application as a platform technology that provides uniform methods for analysing balance data is presented as a case study. The development of balance problems is common in neurodegenerative conditions, leading to falls and a reduced quality of life. While balance can be assessed using, for example, perturbation tests, sensors offer a more quantitative and scalable way. Researchers can adjust the platform to integrate the sensors of their choice or upload data and then preprocess, featurise, analyse, and visualise them. This eases performing comparative analyses across the sensors and datasets through a reduction of heterogeneity and facilitates easy integration of machine learning and other advanced data analytics, thereby targeting personalising medical insights.