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It may cause several technical issues to the reliability and usability of the assessment tool, including manual bias during the recording and additional efforts for data labeling. To tackle these issues, this pilot study aims to propose an automatic functional shoulder task identification and sub-task segmentation system using inertial measurement units to provide reliable shoulder task labeling and sub-task information for clinical professionals. The proposed method combines machine learning models and rule-based modification to identify shoulder tasks and segment sub-tasks accurately. A hierarchical design is applied to enhance the efficiency and performance of the proposed approach. Nine healthy subjects and nine frozen shoulder patients are invited to perform five common shoulder tasks in the lab-based and clinical environments, respectively. The experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve 87.11% F-score for shoulder task identification, and 83.23% F-score and 427 mean absolute time errors (milliseconds) for sub-task segmentation. The proposed approach demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed method to support reliable evaluation for clinical assessment.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21010106","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,27]],"date-time":"2020-12-27T20:52:21Z","timestamp":1609102341000},"page":"106","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Automatic Functional Shoulder Task Identification and Sub-Task Segmentation Using Wearable Inertial Measurement Units for Frozen Shoulder Assessment"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Chih-Ya","family":"Chang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tri-Service General Hospital, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 114, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Physical Therapy and Assistive Technology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6771-2067","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chia-Yeh","family":"Hsieh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2319-1204","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hsiang-Yun","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yung-Tsan","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tri-Service General Hospital, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 114, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Liang-Cheng","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tri-Service General Hospital, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 114, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0995-601X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chia-Tai","family":"Chan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7867-4716","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kai-Chun","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"135","DOI":"10.2519\/jospt.2009.2916","article-title":"Frozen shoulder: Evidence and a proposed model guiding rehabilitation","volume":"39","author":"Kelley","year":"2009","journal-title":"J. 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