Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-25-2021
Abstract
Patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD) experience daytime symptom fluctuations, which result in small amplitude, slow and unstable walking during times when medication attenuates. The ability to identify dysfunctional gait patterns throughout the day from raw mobile phone acceleration and gyroscope signals would allow the development of applications to provide real-time interventions to facilitate walking performance by, for example, providing external rhythmic cues. Patients (n = 20, mean Hoehn and Yahr: 2.25) had their ambulatory data recorded and were directly observed twice during one day: once after medication abstention, (OFF) and once approximately 30 min after intake of their medication (ON). Regularized generalized linear models (RGLM), neural networks (NN), and random forest (RF) classification models were individually trained for each participant. Across all subjects, our best performing classifier on average achieved an accuracy of 92.5%. This study demonstrated that smartphone accelerometers and gyroscopes can be used to distinguish between ON versus OFF times, potentially making smartphones useful intervention tools.
Recommended Citation
Pierce, A., Ignasiak, N. K., Eiteman-Pang, W. K., Rakovski, C., & Berardi, V. (2021). Mobile phone sensors can discern medication-related gait quality changes in Parkinson's patients in the home environment. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update, 1, 100028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpbup.2021.100028
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This article was originally published in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update, volume 1, in 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpbup.2021.100028