A computer aided diagnosis system for the early detection of neurodegenerative diseases using linear and non-linear analysis

• Published in: 2018 IEEE 4th Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering (MECBME) pp. 116 - 121
• Main Authors: Elden, Rana Hossam, Ghoneim, Vidan Fathi, Al-Atabany, Walid
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.03.2018
• Subjects: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Biomedical engineering; Diseases; Entropy; Feature extraction; Fisher score selection strategy; Foot; Gait time series; Huntington; Linear features; Non-linear features; Parkinson; Support vector machine; Support vector machines; Time series analysis

One of the most serious problems that faces human nowadays is the gait disturbances as result of neurodegenerative diseases (NDD). Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease (PD), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Huntington Disease (HD) identified as the dynamic loss of neurons...