Ubiquitous Assessment of the Recovery of Cancer Patients Using Consumer-Level Activity Trackers

Proceedings

Rojas, Ignacio¹  Moreno, Salvador²  Damas, Miguel³  Amezcua, Victor⁴ 

[1] Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.;Department of Computer Architecture and Technology, CITIC-UGR Research Center, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain;Medical Oncology Service, Virgen de las Nieves Hospital, 18014 Granada, Spain;Presented at the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2018), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, 4–7 December 2018

关键词: ubiquitous;    e-Health;    chemotherapy;    cancer;    performance status;    physical activity;    Fitbit;   

DOI  :  10.3390/proceedings2191204

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Performance Status (PS) variability is a powerful tool to evaluate overall condition, treatment needs and survival chances of cancer patients. Traditionally, its assessment has relied on the experience of oncologists when interpreting results of clinical tests and when interviewing the patients. Meanwhile, consumer-level activity trackers have obtained good results in behavior-change oriented intervention trials and Fitbit devices have demonstrated enough reliability to provide objective data related to physical activity, but the clinical possibilities of the data collected has been neglected. This work presents a system design for ubiquitous assessment of PS by means of objective and quantifiable data from different sources: medical history, self-reported quality-of-life questionnaires and a commercial activity tracker Fitbit Alta HR. The system proposed aims to contextualize and model the recovery process of breast cancer patients during chemotherapy treatment.

【 授权许可】

CC BY