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Your Turn: At Home Turning Angle Estimation for Parkinson's Disease Severity Assessment

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  • Haebom

Author

Qiushuo Cheng, Catherine Morgan, Arindam Sikdar, Alessandro Masullo, Alan Whone, Majid Mirmehdi

Outline

This paper presents a deep learning-based approach for quantitatively analyzing gait characteristics, particularly rotational motion, in patients with Parkinson's disease. To overcome the limitations of existing clinical assessment tools, we continuously monitor patients' daily rotational motion using video data captured in a home-like environment. Using Fastpose and the Strided Transformer model, we extract 3D skeletal information and automatically quantify the rotational angles of the hip and knee joints by calculating them. We validate the method using the Turn-REMAP and Turn-H3.6M datasets, achieving an accuracy of 41.6%, a MAE of 34.7 degrees, and a weighted precision of 68.3%. This is the first study to quantify rotational motion in patients with Parkinson's disease in a home environment using data from a single monocular camera.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
A novel method for continuous, noninvasive monitoring of gait characteristics in patients with Parkinson's disease is presented.
Monitoring the progression of Parkinson's disease in a natural environment like home.
Presenting the possibility of building a cost-effective monitoring system using a single monocular camera.
Limitations:
Accuracy degradation due to quantization of angles in 45 degree increments.
The influence of variables such as clothing and lighting due to data collection in a free home environment.
Relatively low accuracy (41.6%).
Limited number of subjects (24).
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