Analysis of Gait Rhythm Fluctuations for Neurodegenerative Diseases by Phase Synchronization and Conditional Entropy

• Published in: IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 291 - 299
• Main Authors: Ren, Peng, Zhao, Weihua, Zhao, Zhiying, Bringas-Vega, Maria L., Valdes-Sosa, Pedro A., Kendrick, Keith M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.02.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Algorithms; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - physiopathology; Area Under Curve; Biomechanical Phenomena; conditional entropy; Disease; Diseases; Electroencephalography Phase Synchronization; Entropy; Female; Fluctuation; Foot; Gait; Gait Disorders, Neurologic; gait rhythm fluctuation; High definition video; Humans; Huntington Disease - physiopathology; Huntington's disease (HD); Male; Middle Aged; neurodegenerative disease; Neurodegenerative Diseases - physiopathology; Neurological diseases; Parkinson Disease - physiopathology; Parkinson's disease (PD); phase synchronization; Rhythm; stance; stride; Swing; Synchronism; Synchronization; synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE); Time series analysis

Previous studies have revealed that gait rhythm fluctuations convey important information, which is useful for understanding certain types of neurodegenerative diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Huntington's disease (HD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). However, previous in...