A SMARTPHONE-BASED ASSESSMENT TOOL TO EVALUATE PARKINSON’S DISEASE SEVERITY |
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| Rosario Morello, Claudio De Capua, Gianluca Lipari, Maria Grazia Belvedere |
- Abstract:
- In this paper, an assessment tool based on smartphone to evaluate disease severity in patients with Parkinson’s disease is proposed. Parkinson’s disease is a pathology widely spread in middle aged and aged individuals of any sex. It is a debilitating and degenerative disorder affecting the central nervous system. Distinctive symptoms are movement-related such as rigidity, slowness of movement and shaking. Further symptoms could be even cause of behavioural problems such as dementia. Today, the disease severity assessment is performed by means of simple visual examination or by using specific medical instrumentation. The Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale is used to define the progress status of disease. However, this ordinal scale allows physician to evaluate only qualitatively the pathology severity. Moreover, this evaluation requires expert medical staff, and sometimes, even the admission of patient to hospital is needed. For these reasons, the authors propose a smartphone app, which is able to record and process involuntary tremors of patient hand. Information, concerning amplitude and frequency of acceleration levels, is compared with patient historical data in order to assess the progress of disease.
- Keywords:
- smartphone app, Parkinson’s disease, tremors, vibration measurement, severity assessment
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC13-2014-19.pdf
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- Event details
- IMEKO TC:
- TC13
- Event name:
- New Frontiers in Biomedical Measurements
- Title:
3rd IMEKO TC13 Symposium
- Place:
- Lecce, ITALY
- Time:
- 17 April 2014 - 18 April 2014