Video-based diagnosis support system for pianists with Musician's dystonia
Musician's dystonia is a task-specific movement disorder that deteriorates fine motor control of skilled movements in musical performance. Although this disorder threatens professional careers, its diagnosis is challenging for clinicians who have no specialized knowledge of musical performance....
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Published in | Frontiers in neurology Vol. 15; p. 1409962 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Switzerland
Frontiers Media S.A
02.07.2024
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Summary: | Musician's dystonia is a task-specific movement disorder that deteriorates fine motor control of skilled movements in musical performance. Although this disorder threatens professional careers, its diagnosis is challenging for clinicians who have no specialized knowledge of musical performance.
To support diagnostic evaluation, the present study proposes a novel approach using a machine learning-based algorithm to identify the symptomatic movements of Musician's dystonia.
We propose an algorithm that identifies the dystonic movements using the anomaly detection method with an autoencoder trained with the hand kinematics of healthy pianists. A unique feature of the algorithm is that it requires only the video image of the hand, which can be derived by a commercially available camera. We also measured the hand biomechanical functions to assess the contribution of peripheral factors and improve the identification of dystonic symptoms.
The proposed algorithm successfully identified Musician's dystonia with an accuracy and specificity of 90% based only on video footages of the hands. In addition, we identified the degradation of biomechanical functions involved in controlling multiple fingers, which is not specific to musical performance. By contrast, there were no dystonia-specific malfunctions of hand biomechanics, including the strength and agility of individual digits.
These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of the present technique in aiding in the accurate diagnosis of Musician's dystonia. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Edited by: Steven Frucht, New York University, United States Ritesh Anand Ramdhani, Hofstra University, United States Reviewed by: David Peterson, University of California, San Diego, United States |
ISSN: | 1664-2295 1664-2295 |
DOI: | 10.3389/fneur.2024.1409962 |