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Assessment of Bradykinesia in Parkinson?s disease patients through a multi-parametric system
Year:2011

Research Areas
  • Telemedicine

Information
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to describe and present the results of the automatic detection and assessment of bradykinesia in motor disease patients using wireless, wearable accelerometers. The current work is related to a module of the PERFORM system, a FP7 project from the European Commission, that aims at providing an innovative and reliable tool, able to evaluate, monitor and manage patients suffering from Parkinson's disease. The assessment procedure was carried out through a developed C# library that detects the activities of the patient using an activity recognition algorithm and classifies the data using a Support Vector Machine trained with data coming from previous test phases. The accuracy between the output of the automatic detection and the evaluation of the clinician both expressed with the Unified Parkinson's disease Rating Scale, presents an average value of [68.3±8.9]%. A meta-analysis algorithm is used in order to improve the accuracy to an average value of [74.4±14.9]%. Future work will include a personalized training of the classifiers in order to achieve a higher level of accuracy.
International
Si
Congress
33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC ?11).
960
Place
Reviewers
Si
ISBN/ISSN
978-1-4244-4121-1
Start Date
30/08/2011
End Date
03/09/2011
From page
1810
To page
1813
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC ?11).
Participants
  • Autor: Matteo Pastorino . UPM
  • Autor: Jorge Cancela Gonzalez UPM
  • Autor: Maria Teresa Arredondo Waldmeyer UPM
  • Autor: Mario Pansera . UPM
  • Autor: Laura Pastor Sanz UPM
  • Autor: Federico Villagra Universidad de Navarra
  • Autor: Maria Pastor Universidad de Navarra
  • Autor: Jose Antonio Martin Pereda UPM

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Life Supporting Technologies (Tecnologías de Apoyo a la Vida)
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Centro de tecnología Biomédica CTB
  • Departamento: Tecnología Fotónica y Bioingeniería