This week, I am working to get the dynamic time warping functionality into my program. The process of doing so includes re-processing the features to include the time series, putting each series back together when we construct sequences, and then performing the DTW to generate a number that will be used to compute the kNN of each sequence which can then be used for predictions with the models. The processing time of these activities has gone up significantly since we have been using five different metrics with each of the F phase datasets. I am returning to school next week, and once I've completed the DTW processing all that will remain before we put together our second paper (The date for the reach journal we would like to submit it to is October 1), I am hoping I will have time to look again into the Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering concept, which I did not successfully complete when we explored it earlier in the summer and then changed focus to the paper. We heard back
The third and final element in project preparation was one that I did not see coming initially. When Dr. Sprint initially discussed the potential research topic with me, she explained her background in the area of activity analysis and association with Dr. Doug Weeks, the Director of Clinical Research at St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute. Dr. Weeks was involved in several projects utilizing data from wearable Actigraph watches to study the recovery patterns of stroke and traumatic brain injury, patients. Dr. Weeks’ research assistants were two volunteer physical therapy students who were due to begin clinical rotations at the end of the summer. Thus, it made sense for Alexa and me to replace them. I met with one of the students, Ellie, on a Saturday morning. She explained how there were two patients in the study at current, but that they typically had anywhere from one to three.
Moving forward from this training, my goals will be to get comfortable with the day to day procedure, learn how to complete subject paperwork and prepare for the following day, and enter the data into the computer.
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