Application of Wearable Sensors in Parkinson’s Disease: State of the Art
Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
14(2), P. 23 - 23
Published: Feb. 20, 2025
(1)
Background:
Wearable
sensors
have
emerged
as
a
promising
technology
in
the
management
of
Parkinson’s
disease
(PD).
These
can
provide
continuous
and
real-time
monitoring
various
motor
non-motor
symptoms
PD,
allowing
for
early
detection
intervention.
In
this
paper,
I
review
current
research
on
application
wearable
focusing
gait,
tremor,
bradykinesia,
dyskinesia
monitoring.(2)
Methods:
involved
literature
search
that
spanned
2000–2024
period
included
following
keywords:
“wearable
sensors”,
“Parkinson’s
Disease”,
“Inertial
“accelerometers’’,
‘’gyroscopes’’,
‘’magnetometers”,
“Smartphones”,
“Smart
homes”.
(3)
Results:
Despite
favorable
outcomes
from
development
inertial
sensors,
like
gyroscopes
accelerometers
smartphones,
is
still
restricted
because
there
are
no
standards,
harmonization,
or
consensus
both
clinical
analytical
validation.
As
result,
several
trials
were
created
to
compare
effectiveness
with
conventional
evaluation
methods
order
track
course
enhance
quality
life
results.
(4)
Conclusions:
hold
great
promise
PD
likely
play
significant
role
future
healthcare
systems.
Language: Английский
Applying Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning to the Diagnostic Challenge of Distinguishing Parkinson’s Disease from Other Forms of Parkinsonism
Biomedicines,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
13(3), P. 572 - 572
Published: Feb. 25, 2025
Background/Objectives:
Parkinson’s
Disease
(PD)
and
other
forms
of
parkinsonism
share
motor
symptoms,
including
tremor,
bradykinesia,
rigidity.
The
overlap
in
their
clinical
presentation
creates
a
diagnostic
challenge,
as
conventional
methods
rely
heavily
on
expertise,
which
can
be
subjective
inconsistent.
This
highlights
the
need
for
objective,
data-driven
approaches
such
machine
learning
(ML)
this
area.
However,
applying
ML
to
datasets
faces
challenges
imbalanced
class
distributions,
small
sample
sizes
non-PD
parkinsonism,
heterogeneity
within
group.
Methods:
study
analyzed
wearable
sensor
data
from
260
PD
participants
18
individuals
with
etiologically
diverse
were
collected
during
mobility
tasks
using
single
placed
lower
back.
We
evaluated
performance
models
distinguishing
these
two
groups
identified
most
informative
classification.
Additionally,
we
examined
characteristics
misclassified
presented
case
studies
common
practice,
uncertainty
at
patient’s
initial
visit
changes
diagnosis
over
time.
also
suggested
potential
steps
address
dataset
limited
models’
performance.
Results:
Feature
importance
analysis
revealed
Timed
Up
Go
(TUG)
task
When
TUG
test
alone,
exceeded
that
combining
all
tasks,
achieving
balanced
accuracy
78.2%,
is
0.2%
movement
disorder
experts.
differences
some
scores
between
correctly
falsely
classified
by
our
models.
Conclusions:
These
findings
demonstrate
feasibility
sensors
differentiating
parkinsonian
disorders,
addressing
key
its
streamlining
workflows.
Language: Английский
Sustainable AI Hardware for Advanced Healthcare Diagnostics
N. Bharath,
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Poonam Tiwari,
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D. Lakshmi
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et al.
Advances in computational intelligence and robotics book series,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 267 - 310
Published: March 21, 2025
This
paper
focuses
on
making
Artificial
Intelligence
(AI)
sustainable,
and
particularly
in
the
context
of
healthcare
diagnostics.
As
AI
revolutionizes
with
innovations
predictive
analytics,
medical
imaging,
personalized
treatment,
rising
energy
demands
these
technologies
emphasize
need
for
sustainable
hardware
solutions.
We
explore
evolution
hardware,
from
early
developments
to
modern,
energy-efficient
systems
such
as
low-power
chips
Neural
Processing
Units
(NPUs),
which
enables
real-time,
on-device
data
analysis.
A
major
portion
neuromorphic
computing,
an
upcoming
field
inspired
by
brain's
neural
architecture.
By
leveraging
Spiking
Networks
(SNNs),
event-driven
processing,
synaptic
plasticity,
attain
considerable
efficiency,
them
well
suited
real-time
applications
like
wearable
monitors
smart
implants.
The
also
delves
into
role
cloud
platforms
parallelism
minimizing
carbon
footprint
technologies.
Language: Английский
Machine Learning and Statistical Analyses of Sensor Data Reveal Variability Between Repeated Trials in Parkinson’s Disease Mobility Assessments
Sensors,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
24(24), P. 8096 - 8096
Published: Dec. 19, 2024
Mobility
tasks
like
the
Timed
Up
and
Go
test
(TUG),
cognitive
TUG
(cogTUG),
walking
with
turns
provide
insights
into
impact
of
Parkinson’s
disease
(PD)
on
motor
control,
balance,
function.
We
assess
test–retest
reliability
these
in
262
PD
participants
50
controls
by
evaluating
machine
learning
models
based
wearable-sensor-derived
measures
statistical
metrics.
This
evaluation
examines
total
duration,
subtask
other
quantitative
across
two
trials.
show
that
diagnostic
accuracy
for
distinguishing
from
decreases
a
mean
1.8%
between
first
second
trial,
suggesting
task
repetition
may
not
be
necessary
accurate
diagnosis.
Although
duration
remains
relatively
consistent
trials
(intraclass
correlation
coefficient
(ICC)
=
0.62
to
0.95),
greater
variability
is
seen
sensor-derived
measures,
reflected
performance
differences.
Our
findings
also
this
differs
only
but
among
groups
varying
levels
severity,
indicating
need
consider
population
characteristics.
Relying
solely
conventional
metrics
gauge
mobility
fail
reveal
nuanced
variations
movement.
Language: Английский
Multipopulation Whale Optimization-Based Feature Selection Algorithm and Its Application in Human Fall Detection Using Inertial Measurement Unit Sensors
Hang Cao,
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Bingshuo Yan,
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Dong Lin
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et al.
Sensors,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
24(24), P. 7879 - 7879
Published: Dec. 10, 2024
Feature
selection
(FS)
is
a
key
process
in
many
pattern-recognition
tasks,
which
reduces
dimensionality
by
eliminating
redundant
or
irrelevant
features.
However,
for
complex
high-dimensional
issues,
traditional
FS
methods
cannot
find
the
ideal
feature
combination.
To
overcome
this
disadvantage,
paper
presents
multispiral
whale
optimization
algorithm
(MSWOA)
selection.
First,
an
Adaptive
Multipopulation
merging
Strategy
(AMS)
presented,
uses
exponential
variation
and
individual
location
information
to
divide
population,
thus
avoiding
premature
aggregation
of
subpopulations
increasing
candidate
subsets.
Second,
Double
Spiral
updating
(DSS)
devised
break
out
search
stagnations
discovering
new
positions
continuously.
Last,
facilitate
convergence
speed,
Baleen
neighborhood
Exploitation
(BES)
mimics
behavior
tentacles
proposed.
The
presented
thoroughly
compared
with
six
state-of-the-art
meta-heuristic
promising
WOA-based
algorithms
on
20
UCI
datasets.
Experimental
results
indicate
that
proposed
method
superior
other
well-known
competitors
most
cases.
In
addition,
utilized
perform
human
fall-detection
extensive
real
experimental
further
illustrate
ability
addressing
practical
problems.
Language: Английский