An unsupervised decision-support framework for multivariate biomarker analysis in athlete monitoring

Minute-resolution athlete monitoring is increasingly common, while injury annotation may exist only at the athlete-session level and omit within-session onset time. Replicating a positive session label across every recorded minute would therefore create unsupported minute-level supervision. We address this label-resolution mismatch using fixed elapsed-time landmarks at 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 min, constructing one representation per athlete-session from information available up to each landmark while keeping the target as a same-day injury-associated session indicator. Using 2020 SoccerMon data from elite women's football, the modelling cohort contains 2,259 Team A athlete-sessions from 27 athletes, including all 22 positive sessions from five athletes. Evaluation is athlete-disjoint. We compare contextual, cumulative, and dynamic representations; Logistic Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, and TabPFN; and training-only NONE, SMOTE, and CTGAN conditions. Robustness is assessed using athlete-cluster bootstrap, a fixed common cohort, alternative fold allocations, leave-one-positive-athlete-out analysis, and equal-athlete weighting. Discrimination is landmark-dependent and non-monotonic. TabPFN improves later-landmark discrimination relative to Logistic Regression but does not consistently outperform Random Forest. Synthetic augmentation provides condition-specific rather than universal benefit. The contribution is a unit-aligned framework for using minute-resolution predictors with session-level supervision, not minute-specific injury prediction.

Athlete assessment is a critical process for tracking physical progress and identifying elite talent. However, during mass recruitment drives, traditional methods rely on manual observation, which is inherently subjective and unscalable, or basic computer vision (CV) systems limited to quantitative repetition counting. These standard approaches lack the "coaching intelligence" required to evaluate qualitative physiological markers such as form degradation, spinal articulation, and fatigue. This paper presents a novel, LLM-based hybrid agentic framework for automated, holistic athlete profiling that strictly aligns with the Sports Authority of India (SAI) assessment protocols. Orchestrated via LangGraph, our dual-pipeline architecture synthesizes the geometric precision of CV (MediaPipe) for kinematic tracking with the semantic reasoning of Vision-Language Models (Llama-4-scout). To overcome the latency and token constraints associated with multimodal video processing, we introduce a 3 X 3 "Smart Grid" temporal chunking strategy, reducing computational overhead by over 88% while preserving critical temporal continuity. To ensure data integrity and mitigate hallucination, the framework pioneers an autonomous "LLM-as-a-Judge" self-correction loop that cross-references quantitative and qualitative metrics before persistence. Finally, we implement a dual-persistence Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline utilizing a vector search engine (ChromaDB). This enables coaches to bypass rigid SQL databases and perform complex semantic queries (e.g., "Identify athletes with high endurance but poor core rigidity") using natural language. Experimental results demonstrate that this multi-agent approach significantly bridges the gap between raw biometric tracking and actionable coaching insights, offering a scalable, objective solution for national talent identification.

Wearable and mobile sensing technologies have demonstrated strong potential for health inference; however, most sensor models are designed for specific disease types, limiting their transferability across different health risks. Wearable foundation models offer a more generalizable approach in diverse health risk types. Nevertheless, most existing methods rely on high-frequency raw sensor data, raising concerns about privacy, computational overhead, and scalability across devices and populations. In this paper, we propose StepFM, a foundation model built solely on step counter data for broad-spectrum health prediction. Leveraging the ubiquity and low-dimensional nature of step data, StepFM provides a practical, privacy-preserving, and computation-efficient alternative to traditional sensor-based models. We design a scalable pre-training framework that captures temporal dynamics and behavioral patterns from large-scale step sequences, enabling transfer across more than 20 health risk prediction tasks spanning diverse devices, new regions, and novel disease types. Extensive experiments demonstrate that StepFM achieves strong performance compared to existing methods while maintaining robustness across heterogeneous settings. Furthermore, our analysis reveals interpretable and generalizable relationships between physical activity patterns and various health risks, offering new insights into activity-based health modeling. Our work establishes step-based sensing as a viable foundation for scalable and real-world health monitoring.