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Foot orthosis, which is effective in normalizing the arch and providing stability during walking, is prescribed for the purpose of treatment and correction. Currently, machine learning technology for classifying and diagnosing foot types is being developed, but it has not yet been applied to the prescription of foot orthosis for the treatment and management of pes planus. Thus, the aim of this study is to propose a model that can prescribe a customized foot orthosis to patients with pes planus by learning from and analyzing various clinical data based on a decision tree algorithm called classification and regressing tree (CART). A total of 8 parameters were selected based on the feature importance, and 15 rules for the prescription of foot orthosis were generated. The proposed model based on the CART algorithm achieved an accuracy of 80.16%. This result suggests that the CART model developed in this study can provide adequate help to clinicians in prescribing foot orthosis easily and accurately for patients with pes planus. In the future, we plan to acquire more clinical data and develop a model that can prescribe more accurate and stable foot orthosis using various machine learning technologies.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph191912484","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,8]],"date-time":"2022-10-08T20:43:21Z","timestamp":1665261801000},"page":"12484","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Decision Tree-Based Foot Orthosis Prescription for Patients with Pes Planus"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5423-2443","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ji-Yong","family":"Jung","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Biomedical Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si 54896, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chang-Min","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Healthcare Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si 54896, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jung-Ja","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Biomedical Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si 54896, Korea"},{"name":"Research Center of Healthcare & Welfare Instrument for the Aged, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si 54896, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"70","DOI":"10.1016\/j.fas.2009.05.006","article-title":"Repeatability of the Pedar-X\u00ae in-shoe pressure measuring system","volume":"16","author":"Ramanathan","year":"2010","journal-title":"Foot Ankle Surg."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1897","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jfma.2020.12.019","article-title":"Flat foot and spinal degeneration: Evidence from nationwide population-based cohort study","volume":"120","author":"Chou","year":"2021","journal-title":"J. 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