High accuracy discrimination of Parkinson's disease participants from healthy controls using smartphones

Siddharth Arora, Vinayak Venkataraman, Sean Donohue, Kevin M. Biglan, Earl R. Dorsey, Max A. Little

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to accurately distinguish Parkinson's disease (PD) participants from healthy controls using self-administered tests of gait and postural sway. Using consumer-grade smartphones with in-built accelerometers, we objectively measure and quantify key movement severity symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Specifically, we record tri-axial accelerations, and extract a range of different features based on the time and frequency-domain properties of the acceleration time series. The features quantify key characteristics of the acceleration time series, and enhance the underlying differences in the gait and postural sway accelerations between PD participants and controls. Using a random forest classifier, we demonstrate an average sensitivity of 98.5% and average specificity of 97.5% in discriminating PD participants from controls.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
PublisherIEEE
Pages3641-3644
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)978-1-4799-2892-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - Florence, Italy
Duration: 4 May 20149 May 2014

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
Abbreviated titleICASSP 2014
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period4/05/149/05/14

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Keywords

  • Gait
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Postural sway
  • Random forest
  • Smartphones
  • Tri-axial acceleration

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