Automatic and Objective Assessment of Alternating Tapping Performance in Parkinson’s Disease

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 13; no. 12; pp. 16965 - 16984
• Main Authors: Memedi, Mevludin, Khan, Taha, Grenholm, Peter, Nyholm, Dag, Westin, Jerker
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 09.12.2013; Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
• Subjects: alternating tapping; automatic assessment; Complex Systems – Microdata Analysis; Computer Science; Datavetenskap; Female; handheld computer; Humans; Komplexa system - mikrodataanalys; Logistic Models; Male; Middle Aged; Models, Theoretical; objective assessment; Parkinson Disease - physiopathology; Parkinson's disease; Principal Component Analysis; remote monitoring; telemedicine; Telemetry - methods; Touch - physiology; touch-pad; visual assessment; telemedicine; handheld computer; Parkinson‟s disease; touch-pad; remote monitoring; objective assessment; alternating tapping; visual assessment; automatic assessment

This paper presents the development and evaluation of a method for enabling quantitative and automatic scoring of alternating tapping performance of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Ten healthy elderly subjects and 95 patients in different clinical stages of PD have utilized a touch-pad handh...