What is it about?
Measuring tremors accurately is critical to mitigating symptoms of Parkinson's disease patients. We use wearable sensing data of drawing activity to measure tremor events as it is a common daily activity and easy to perform for any user. Our preliminary analysis and results show the potential of measuring kinetic tremors effectively.
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Why is it important?
Tremor is a common symptom among all stages of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients. The use of subjective observation of tremors by domain experts in the clinic setting is the usual assessment of tremors, which is not preferable in patients’ daily lives. We secure a vast number of drawing events and then propose data analysis to measure the tremor of PD patients.
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For easier tremor screening, it is important to use daily activities with the assistance of a widely-used device. Our publication shows that using smartwatches and some techniques can suggest potential tremor events in daily drawing activities, which will be beneficial for screening PD tremors at early stages.
Woosub Jung
College of William and Mary
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This page is a summary of: IMU Sensing Data-Based Kinetic Tremor Detection in Parkinson's Disease Patients, November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3560905.3568052.
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