ERIC Number: ED672545
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2025-May
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Available Date: 0000-00-00
EXACT: A Meta-Learning Framework for Precise Exercise Segmentation in Physical Therapy
Hanchen David Wang1; Siwoo Bae1; Xutong Sun1; Yashvitha Thatigotla1; Meiyi Ma1
Grantee Submission, Paper presented at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) (16th, Irvine, CA, May 6-9, 2025)
Wearable sensor technology has significantly enhanced healthcare quality, including physical therapy. However, due to the design of current deep learning models, existing works often ignore the unique variations of rest intervals between repetitions and variations in individual user progress, potentially hindering effective therapy outcomes. To address these limitations, this paper introduces EXACT, a novel framework designed to improve exercise segmentation and differentiate between exercise variations and rest intervals in PT applications. EXACT leverages a unique combination of a U-Net architecture integrated with Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML), enhanced with residual connections and attention mechanisms to capture subtle variations in exercise patterns and rest intervals. This approach addresses key challenges in segmenting dense, multivariate Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data, providing a robust solution that adapts to new tasks with minimal retraining. EXACT achieves up to 20% improvement in segmentation Dice score over state-of-the-art U-Net models, demonstrating superior performance in distinguishing queried exercises from other exercises and rest intervals and handling variability in patient movements. Through rigorous evaluation and ablation studies, the research demonstrates that attention and residual connections are essential for propagating relevant feature information and maintaining generalizability across varied exercise contexts. EXACT's adaptability and precision make it a valuable tool for real-time monitoring in PT, offering enhanced insights into patient progress and exercise quality in rehabilitation tracking. [This paper was published in: "ACM/IEEE 16th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (with CPS-IoT Week 2025) (ICCPS '25), May 6--9, 2025, Irvine, CA, USA," ACM, 2025.]
Descriptors: Physical Therapy, Exercise, Artificial Intelligence, Measurement Equipment, Motion, Intervals, Patients, Computer Use
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Authoring Institution: N/A
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305C240010; 2418602; 2220401; 2427711
Department of Education Funded: Yes
Author Affiliations: 1Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA