Machine Learning-Based Real-Time Detection of Compensatory Trunk Movements Using Trunk-Wrist Inertial Measurement Units

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12591v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:17:05 GMT
• Title: Machine Learning-Based Real-Time Detection of Compensatory Trunk Movements Using Trunk-Wrist Inertial Measurement Units
• Abstract summary: Compensatory trunk movements (CTMs) are commonly observed after stroke and can lead to maladaptive movement patterns.<n>This study investigates whether a two-inertial measurement unit configuration enables reliable, real-time CTM detection using machine learning.
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• Abstract: Compensatory trunk movements (CTMs) are commonly observed after stroke and can lead to maladaptive movement patterns, limiting targeted training of affected structures. Objective, continuous detection of CTMs during therapy and activities of daily living remains challenging due to the typically complex measurements setups required, as well as limited applicability for real-time use. This study investigates whether a two-inertial measurement unit configuration enables reliable, real-time CTM detection using machine learning. Data were collected from ten able-bodied participants performing activities of daily living under simulated impairment conditions (elbow brace restricting flexion-extension, resistance band inducing flexor-synergy-like patterns), with synchronized optical motion capture (OMC) and manually annotated video recordings serving as reference. A systematic location-reduction analysis using OMC identified wrist and trunk kinematics as a minimal yet sufficient set of anatomical sensing locations. Using an extreme gradient boosting classifier (XGBoost) evaluated with leave-one-subject-out cross-validation, our two-IMU model achieved strong discriminative performance (macro-F1 = 0.80 +/- 0.07, MCC = 0.73 +/- 0.08; ROC-AUC > 0.93), with performance comparable to an OMC-based model and prediction timing suitable for real-time applications. Explainability analysis revealed dominant contributions from trunk dynamics and wrist-trunk interaction features. In preliminary evaluation using recordings from four participants with neurological conditions, the model retained good discriminative capability (ROC-AUC ~ 0.78), but showed reduced and variable threshold-dependent performance, highlighting challenges in clinical generalization. These results support sparse wearable sensing as a viable pathway toward scalable, real-time monitoring of CTMs during therapy and daily living.

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