A Computer Method for Pronation-Supination Assessment in Parkinson’s Disease Based on Latent Space Representations of Biomechanical Indicators

Autor: Luis Pastor Sánchez-Fernández, Alejandro Garza-Rodríguez, Luis Alejandro Sánchez-Pérez, Juan Manuel Martínez-Hernández
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Bioengineering, Vol 10, Iss 5, p 588 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2306-5354
DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering10050588
Popis: One problem in the quantitative assessment of biomechanical impairments in Parkinson’s disease patients is the need for scalable and adaptable computing systems. This work presents a computational method that can be used for motor evaluations of pronation-supination hand movements, as described in item 3.6 of the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS). The presented method can quickly adapt to new expert knowledge and includes new features that use a self-supervised training approach. The work uses wearable sensors for biomechanical measurements. We tested a machine-learning model on a dataset of 228 records with 20 indicators from 57 PD patients and eight healthy control subjects. The test dataset’s experimental results show that the method’s precision rates for the pronation and supination classification task achieved up to 89% accuracy, and the F1-scores were higher than 88% in most categories. The scores present a root mean squared error of 0.28 when compared to expert clinician scores. The paper provides detailed results for pronation-supination hand movement evaluations using a new analysis method when compared to the other methods mentioned in the literature. Furthermore, the proposal consists of a scalable and adaptable model that includes expert knowledge and affectations not covered in the MDS-UPDRS for a more in-depth evaluation.
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