Pelvic floor pressure distribution profile in urinary incontinence: a classification study with feature selection.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pelvic floor pressure distribution profiles, obtained by a novel instrumented non-deformable probe, were used as the input to a feature extraction, selection, and classification approach to test their potential for an automatic diagnostic system for objective female urinary incontinence assessment. We tested the performance of different feature selection approaches and different classifiers, as well as sought to establish the group of features that provides the greatest discrimination capability between continent and incontinent women.

Methods

The available data for evaluation consisted of intravaginal spatiotemporal pressure profiles acquired from 24 continent and 24 incontinent women while performing four pelvic floor maneuvers: the maximum contraction maneuver,

SUBMITTER: Carafini A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6907092 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature