arXiv:2603.12278q-bio.OTcs.AI2026-03

用可穿戴传感器数据检测足部异常,为糖尿病足溃疡预防提供新方法

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Wearable Foot Sensor Data: A Baseline Feasibility Study Towards Diabetic Foot Ulcer Prevention

  • 基于热电偶与压力传感器的时序数据,采用无监督算法识别足部异常
  • 孤立森林更敏感于细微分布异常,KNN/LOF则捕捉极端集中偏差
  • 首次建立多模态监测基准流程,适用于未来临床验证研究

糖尿病足溃疡(DFUs)是糖尿病严重并发症,导致高发病率、截肢风险及医疗负担。构建有效连续监测框架需先确立正常足部生物力学基线。本文针对可穿戴足部传感器时序数据开展可行性研究,使用NTC薄膜热电偶测温、FlexiForce A401压力传感器测足底负荷,从健康成人共采集312次试验,获得93,790个有效多传感器读数(2023年9月至2024年6月)。应用孤立森林与基于局部离群因子的K近邻(KNN/LOF)两种无监督算法检测温度与压力信号中的统计偏离。结果表明,孤立森林对细微、分散异常更敏感,而KNN/LOF能识别集中极端异常,但误报率更高。在5%污染率假设下,差异被解释为特异性较低而非确证假阳性。压力与温度特征间存在轻度正相关(0.41–0.48),支持多模态联合监测。研究建立了经验证的分析流水线,为后续糖尿病患者临床验证研究奠定方法基础,可直接评估异常检测与足溃疡病理生理的关系。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a severe complication of diabetes associated with significant morbidity, amputation risk, and healthcare burden. Developing effective continuous monitoring frameworks requires first establishing reliable baseline models of normal foot biomechanics. This paper presents a feasibility study of an anomaly detection framework applied to time-series data from wearable foot sensors, specifically NTC thin-film thermocouples for temperature and FlexiForce A401 pressure sensors for plantar load monitoring. Data were collected from healthy adult subjects across 312 capture sessions on an instrumented pathway, generating 93,790 valid multi-sensor readings spanning September 2023 to June 2024. Two unsupervised algorithms, Isolation Forest and K-Nearest Neighbors using Local Outlier Factor (KNN/LOF), were applied to detect statistical deviations in foot temperature and pressure signals. Results show that Isolation Forest is more sensitive to subtle, distributed anomalies, while KNN/LOF identifies concentrated extreme deviations but flags a higher proportion of sessions not corroborated by Isolation Forest. Since no clinical ground truth is available, this difference is interpreted as lower specificity under the shared 5 percent contamination assumption rather than a confirmed false-positive rate. A mild positive correlation (0.41-0.48) between pressure and temperature features supports the case for combined multi-modal monitoring. These findings establish a validated baseline analytical pipeline and provide a methodological foundation for future clinical validation studies involving diabetic patients, where the relationship between detected anomalies and DFU-related pathophysiology can be directly assessed.

异常检测可穿戴设备糖尿病足多模态监测

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