Smart Home-Based Complex Interwoven Activities for Cognitive Health Assessment

Abstract

With the prevalence of cognitive diseases, the health industry is facing newer challenges since cognitive health deteriorates gradually over time, and clear signs and symptoms appear when it is too late. Smart homes and the IoT (Internet of Things) have given hope to the health industry to monitor and manage the elderly and the less-abled in the comfort of their homes. Smart homes have been most influential in detecting and managing cognitive diseases like dementia. They can give a comprehensive view of the ADL (Activities of Daily Living) of dementia patients. ADLs are categorized as activities of daily life and complex interwoven activities. First signs of cognitive decline appear when a cognitively impaired individual tries to perform complex activities involving planning, analyzing, calculating, and decision making. Therefore, we analyze individuals’ performance while performing complex activities as opposed to Simple ADL. Artificial Intelligence has been one of health-care’s most promising techniques for prediction and diagnosis. When applied to ADL data, machine learning and deep learning algorithms can conveniently and accurately analyze activity patterns and predict the first signs of cognitive decline. Our proposed work uses machine and deep learning classifiers to classify dementia and healthy individuals by analyzing complex interwoven activity data. We use the subset of the CASAS (Centre of Advanced Studies in Adaptive Systems) dataset for eight complex activities performed by 179 individuals in a smart home setting. decision tree, Naive Bayes, support vector, multilayer perceptron classifiers, and deep neural networks have been used for classification. Their results and performances are compared to determine the best classifier. It is observed that deep neural networks and multilayer perceptron show the best results for classifying dementia vs. healthy individuals when evaluating their complex interwoven activities.