2016/12/14 by Avishai Wagner, Wagner, Avishai, Naama Fixler +3
Medicine · Health Professions · #Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments #Neurological disorders and treatments #Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1701.03161
Parkinson's disease is a neuro-degenerative disorder affecting tens of millions of people worldwide. Lately, there has been considerable interest in systems for at-home monitoring of patients, using wearable devices which contain inertial measurement units. We present a new wavelet-based approach for analysis of data from single wrist-worn smart-watches, and show high detection performance for tremor, bradykinesia, and dyskinesia, which have been the major targets for monitoring in this context. We also discuss the implication of our controlled-experiment results for uncontrolled home monitoring of freely behaving patients.