Paper reading (六十七)：Personalized Physical Activity Coaching: A Machine Learning Approach

论文题目：Personalized Physical Activity Coaching: A Machine Learning Approach

scholar 引用：14

页数：15

发表时间：2018.02

发表刊物： Sensors

作者：Talko B. Dijkhuis ,Frank J. Blaauw ,...,Marco Aiello

摘要：

Living a sedentary lifestyle is one of the major causes of numerous health problems. To encourage employees to lead a less sedentary life, the Hanze University started a health promotion program. One of the interventions in the program was the use of an activity tracker to record participants' daily step count. The daily step count served as input for a fortnightly coaching session. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of automating part of the coaching procedure on physical activity by providing personalized feedback throughout the day on a participant’s progress in achieving a personal step goal. The gathered step count data was used to train eight different machine learning algorithms to make hourly estimations of the probability of achieving a personalized, daily steps threshold. In 80% of the individual cases, the Random Forest algorithm was the best performing algorithm (mean accuracy = 0.93, range = 0.88–0.99, and mean F1-score = 0.90, range = 0.87–0.94). To demonstrate the practical usefulness of these models, we developed a proof-of-concept Web application that provides personalized feedback about whether a participant is expected to reach his or her daily threshold. We argue that the use of machine learning could become an invaluable asset in the process of automated personalized coaching. The individualized algorithms allow for predicting physical activity during the day and provides the possibility to intervene in time.

正文组织架构：

1. Introduction

2. Related Work

3. Materials and Methods

3.1 Study Design

3.2 Data Set

3.3 Data Processing, Transformation, and Performance

3.4 Evaluation of the Performance of Algorithms and Models

3.5 Computing the Personalized Predictive Model

3.6 Proof of Concept

3.7 Implementation Details

4. Results

4.1 Accuracy and F1-Score on Group Level

4.2 Individual Algorithms

4.3 The Web Application

5. Discussion

正文部分内容摘录：

1. Biological Problem: What biological problems have been solved in this paper?

• predicting physical activity

2. Main discoveries: What is the main discoveries in this paper?

• The gathered step count data was used to train eight different machine learning algorithms to make hourly estimations of the probability of achieving a personalized, daily steps threshold.
• In 80% of the individual cases, the Random Forest algorithm was the best performing algorithm (mean accuracy = 0.93, range = 0.88–0.99, and mean F1-score = 0.90, range = 0.87–0.94).

3. ML(Machine Learning) Methods: What are the ML methods applied in this paper?

• Random Forest algorithm

4. ML Advantages: Why are these ML methods better than the traditional methods in these biological problems?

5. Biological Significance: What is the biological significance of these ML methods’ results?

• To demonstrate the practical usefulness of these models, we developed a proof-of-concept Web application that provides personalized feedback about whether a participant is expected to reach his or her daily threshold.

6. Prospect: What are the potential applications of these machine learning methods in biological science?

• To make the information even more personal and relevant, a promising direction for future work is to include a prediction of the actual number of steps at the end of the day. Adding more (and personalized) information might strengthen the effectiveness of the system.

7. Mine Question(Optional)

这个case跟宏基因组关系不大，跟生物领域感觉关系也不大？不写了