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Title: Sequence-based Dynamic Handwriting Analysis for Parkinson's Disease Detection with One-dimensional Convolutions and BiGRUs
Authors: Díaz Cabrera, Moisés 
Momina Moetesum
Imran Siddiqi
Gennaro Vessio
UNESCO Clasification: 3304 Tecnología de los ordenadores
320507 Neurología
Keywords: Computer-aided diagnosis
Dynamic handwriting analysis
Parkinson's disease
Recurrent neural networks
Issue Date: 2021
Journal: Expert Systems with Applications 
Abstract: Parkinson's disease (PD) is commonly characterized by several motor symptoms, such as bradykinesia, akinesia, rigidity, and tremor. The analysis of patients' fine motor control, particularly handwriting, is a powerful tool to support PD assessment. Over the years, various dynamic attributes of handwriting, such as pen pressure, stroke speed, in-air time, etc., which can be captured with the help of online handwriting acquisition tools, have been evaluated for the identification of PD. Motion events, and their associated spatio-temporal properties captured in online handwriting, enable effective classification of PD patients through the identification of unique sequential patterns. This paper proposes a novel classification model based on one-dimensional convolutions and Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Units (BiGRUs) to assess the potential of sequential information of handwriting in identifying Parkinsonian symptoms. One-dimensional convolutions are applied to raw sequences as well as derived features; the resulting sequences are then fed to BiGRU layers to achieve the final classification. The proposed method outperformed state-of-the-art approaches on the PaHaW dataset and achieved competitive results on the NewHandPD dataset.
URI: https://accedacris.ulpgc.es/handle/10553/111876
ISSN: 0957-4174
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2020.114405
Source: Expert Systems with Applications [ISSN 0957-4174], v. 168, 114405, (Abril 2021)
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