Title
Deep Learning for Detecting Freezing of Gait Episodes in Parkinson's Disease Based on Accelerometers.
Abstract
Freezing of gait (FOG) is one of the most incapacitating symptoms among the motor alterations of Parkinson's disease (PD). Manifesting FOG episodes reduce patients' quality of life and their autonomy to perform daily living activities, while it may provoke falls. Accurate ambulatory FOG assessment would enable non-pharmacologic support based on cues and would provide relevant information to neurologists on the disease evolution. This paper presents a method for FOG detection based on deep learning and signal processing techniques. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first time that FOG detection is addressed with deep learning. The evaluation of the model has been done based on the data from 15 PD patients who manifested FOG. An inertial measurement unit placed at the left side of the waist recorded tri-axial accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer signals. Our approach achieved comparable results to the state-of-the-art, reaching validation performances of 88.6% and 78% for sensitivity and specificity respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-59147-6_30
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, IWANN 2017, PT II
Keywords
Field
DocType
Freezing of gait,Parkinson's disease,Deep learning,Signal processing,Inertial measurement unit
Parkinson's disease,Disease,Ambulatory,Activities of daily living,Gait,Quality of life,Accelerometer,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Physical medicine and rehabilitation,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10306
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
12