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Deep learning-based classifiers can detect actions and provide feedback based on patient data; however, this is difficult owing to data sparsity and heterogeneity. In this study, we investigate data augmentation and model training strategies to address this problem. Three transformations are tested with varying data volumes to analyze the changes in the classification performance of individual data. Moreover, the impact of transfer learning relative to a pre-trained one-dimensional convolutional neural network (Conv1D) and training with an advanced InceptionTime model are estimated with data augmentation. In Conv1D, the joint training data of non-disabled (ND) participants and double rotationally augmented data of stroke patients is observed to outperform the baseline in terms of F1-score (60.9% vs. 47.3%). Transfer learning pre-trained with ND data exhibits 60.3% accuracy, whereas joint training with InceptionTime exhibits 67.2% accuracy under the same conditions. Our results indicate that rotational augmentation is more effective for individual data with initially lower performance and subset data with smaller numbers of participants than other techniques, suggesting that joint training on rotationally augmented ND and stroke data enhances classification performance, particularly in cases with sparse data and lower initial performance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24051618","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,1]],"date-time":"2024-03-01T06:07:53Z","timestamp":1709273273000},"page":"1618","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Data Augmentation Techniques for Accurate Action Classification in Stroke Patients with Hemiparesis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9040-9170","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Youngmin","family":"Oh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computing, Gachon University, Seongnam 13120, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1189","DOI":"10.1212\/01.wnl.0000238164.90657.c2","article-title":"The Motor Activity Log-28: Assessing daily use of the hemiparetic arm after stroke","volume":"67","author":"Uswatte","year":"2006","journal-title":"Neurology"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2181","DOI":"10.1161\/01.STR.0000087172.16305.CD","article-title":"Probability of regaining dexterity in the flaccid upper limb: Impact of severity of paresis and time since onset in acute stroke","volume":"34","author":"Kwakkel","year":"2003","journal-title":"Stroke"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Hidaka, Y., Han, C.E., Wolf, S.L., Winstein, C.J., and Schweighofer, N. 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