Assessment of Handwriting in Patients With Parkinson's Disease Using Non-Intrusive Tasks

Gallo-Aristizabal JD, Escobar-Grisales D, Rios-Urrego CD, Pérez Toro PA, Nöth E, Maier A, Orozco Arroyave JR (2023)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2023

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Publisher: IEEE Computer Society

Book Volume: 2023-April

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Event location: Cartagena, COL

ISBN: 9781665473583

DOI: 10.1109/ISBI53787.2023.10230617

Abstract

This study presents two approaches for modeling the handwriting of Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients and Healthy Control (HC) subjects. One approach is based on digit-embeddings generated from a CNN architecture pre-trained with information from the MNIST corpus. The second approach consists of the computation of statistical functionals of dynamics signal collected with the digital tablet, namely azimuth, pressure, altitude, and vertical distance. The experiments are based on writing the ten digits (from 0 to 9), which is a task commonly performed in daily life activities, making this approach closer to a non-intrusive evaluation. According to the results, the accuracy of the classification between PD patients vs. HC improved from 71.8% to 74.5% when information from images is combined with the functionals of the vertical distance signal.

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APA:

Gallo-Aristizabal, J.D., Escobar-Grisales, D., Rios-Urrego, C.D., Pérez Toro, P.A., Nöth, E., Maier, A., & Orozco Arroyave, J.R. (2023). Assessment of Handwriting in Patients With Parkinson's Disease Using Non-Intrusive Tasks. In Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. Cartagena, COL: IEEE Computer Society.

MLA:

Gallo-Aristizabal, J. D., et al. "Assessment of Handwriting in Patients With Parkinson's Disease Using Non-Intrusive Tasks." Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2023, Cartagena, COL IEEE Computer Society, 2023.

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