Journal
IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS
Volume 25, Issue 2, Pages 568-576Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2020.2995473
Keywords
Food intake detection; wearable sensors; dietary assessment; energy intake; food imagery
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- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health [R01DK100796]
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A novel wearable sensor AIM-2 was proposed in the study, which can accurately capture food intake images, reduce the number of images for analysis, and alleviate privacy concerns of users.
Use of food image capture and/or wearable sensors for dietary assessment has grown in popularity. Active - methods rely on the user to take an image of each eating episode. Passive methods use wearable cameras that continuously capture images. Most of passively captured images are not related to food consumption and may present privacy concerns. In this paper, we propose a novel wearable sensor (Automatic Ingestion Monitor. AIM-2) designed to capture images only during automatically detected eating episodes. The capture method was validated on a dataset collected from 30 volunteers in the community wearing the AIM-2 for 24h in pseudo-free-living and 24h in a free-living environment. The AIM-2 was able to detect food intake over 10-second epochs with a (mean and standard deviation) Fl-score of 81.8 +/- 10.1%. The accuracy of eating episode detection was 82.7%. Out of a total of 180,570 images captured, 8,929 (4.9%) images belonged to detected eating episodes. Privacy concerns were assessed by a questionnaire on a scale 1-7. Continuous capture had concern value of 5.0 +/- 1.6 (concerned) while image capture only during food intake had concern value of 1.9 +/- 1.7 (not concerned). Results suggest that AIM-2 can provide accurate detection of food intake, reduce the number of images for analysis and alleviate the privacy concerns of the users.
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