Quantifying the Uncertainty of Human Activity Recognition Using a Bayesian Machine Learning Method: A Prediction Study Article Swipe
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· 2023
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.16.23294126
Background Machine learning methods accurately predict physical activity outcomes using accelerometer data generated by wearable devices, thus allowing the investigation of the impact of built environment on population physical activity. While traditional machine learning methods do not provide prediction uncertainty, a new method, Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) can quantify such uncertainty as posterior predictive distribution. We evaluated the performance of BART in predicting physical activity status. Methods We applied multinomial BART and the benchmark method, random forest, to accelerometer data in 25,424 time points, which were generated by wearable devices attached to 37 participants. We evaluated prediction accuracies and confusion matrix using leave-one-out cross-validation. Results BART and random forest demonstrated comparable accuracies in prediction. Conclusions BART is a relatively novel ML method and will advance the incorporation of predicted physical activity status into built environment research. Future research includes the evaluation of the association between the built environment and predicted physical activity with and without accounting for prediction uncertainty.
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