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A recurrence plot-based approach for Parkinson's disease identification

  • Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects millions of people worldwide, causing mental and mainly motor dysfunctions. The negative impact on the patient's daily routine has moved the science in search of new techniques that can reduce its negative effects and also identify the disease in individuals. One of the main motor characteristics of PD is the hand tremor faced by patients, which turns out to be a crucial information to be used towards a computer-aided diagnosis. In this context, we make use of handwriting dynamics data acquired from individuals when submitted to some tasks that measure abilities related to writing skills. This work proposes the application of recurrence plots to map the signals onto the image domain, which are further used to feed a Convolutional Neural Network for learning proper information that can help the automatic identification of PD. The proposed approach was assessed in a public dataset under several scenarios that comprise different combinations of deep-based architectures, image resolutions, and training set sizes. Experimental results showed significant accuracy improvement compared to our previous work with an average accuracy of over 87%. Moreover, it was observed an improvement in accuracy concerning the classification of patients (i.e., mean recognition rates above to 90%). The promising results showed the potential of the proposed approach towards the automatic identification of Parkinson's disease.

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Author:Luis Claudio Sugi Afonso, Gustavo H. Rosa, Clayton R. PereiraORCiD, Silke A. T. WeberORCiD, Christian Hook, Victor Hugo C. Albuquerque, Joao Paulo PapaORCiD
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.11.054
Parent Title (English):Future generation computer systems - The international journal of escience
Publisher:Elsevier
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2019
Release Date:2022/01/31
Tag:Classification; Convolutional neural networks; Optimum-path forest; Parkinson's disease; Recurrence plot; diagnosis
Volume:94
Issue:May
First Page:282
Last Page:292
Institutes:Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik
Begutachtungsstatus:peer-reviewed
research focus:Lebenswissenschaften und Ethik
Licence (German):Keine Lizenz - Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG