Title
Multi-Scale Sparse Graph Convolutional Network For the Assessment of Parkinsonian Gait
Abstract
Automated assessment of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) is urgently required in clinical practice to improve the diagnostic efficiency and objectivity and to remotely monitor the motor disorder symptoms and general health of these patients, especially in view of the travel restrictions due to the recent coronavirus epidemic. Gait motor disorder is one of the critical manifestations of PD, and automated assessment of gait is vital to realize automated assessment of PD patients. To this end, we propose a novel two-stream spatial-temporal attention graph convolutional network (2s-ST-AGCN) for video assessment of PD gait motor disorder. Specifically, the skeleton sequence of human body is extracted from videos to construct spatial-temporal graphs of joints and bones, and a two-stream spatial-temporal graph convolutional network is then built to simultaneously model the static spatial information and dynamic temporal variations. The multi-scale spatial-temporal attention-aware mechanism is also designed to effectively extract the discriminative spatial-temporal features. The deep supervision strategy is then embedded to minimize classification errors, thereby guiding the weight update process of the hidden layer to promote significant discriminative features. Besides, two model-driven terms are integrated into this deep learning framework to strengthen multi-scale similarity in the deep supervision and realize sparsification of discriminative features. Extensive experiments on the clinical video dataset show that the proposed model exhibits good performance with an accuracy of 65.66% and an acceptable accuracy of 98.90%, which is much better than that of the existing sensor- and vision-based methods for Parkinsonian gait assessment. Thus, the proposed method is potentially useful for assessing PD gait motor disorder in clinical practice.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TMM.2021.3068609
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Feature extraction, Deep learning, Pose estimation, Bones, Legged locomotion, Joints, Correlation, Parkinson's disease, gait motor disorder, video-based assessment, graph convolutional network, model-driven deep learning
Journal
24
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1520-9210
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rui Guo101.01
Xiangxin Shao200.34
Chencheng Zhang300.34
Xiaohua Qian443.78