Title :
A low-cost platform for testing activities in parkinson and ALS patients
Author :
Bustamante, P. ; Grandez, K. ; Solas, G. ; Arrizabalaga, S.
Author_Institution :
Electron. & Commun. Dept., CEIT, San Sebastian, Spain
Abstract :
The diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases has become a key point in nowadays European healthcare system. However, the underlying testing and monitorization processes haven´t experienced the innovation and advancement required to fulfill the needs that such diagnosis and treatment present. In this paper we propose a new testing device for Parkinson Disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients. The device is designed to carry out two of the most used tests for these patients: the finger-tapping test and the hand-grip strength test. The designed system has been divided in three main blocks, which have been implemented and tested: a sensorizec glove, equipped with Force sensitive Resistors (FSR), a tiny hardware device which gathers the data and a PC application, which presents the results to the doctors. This work is part funded by the ICT programme of the European Commission (PERFORM Project: FP7-ICT-2007-1-215952).
Keywords :
diseases; medical computing; neurophysiology; patient diagnosis; patient treatment; sensors; ALS patients; European healthcare system; Parkinson disease patients; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients; disease diagnosis; disease treatment; finger-tapping test; force sensitive resistors; hand-grip strength test; neurodegenerative diseases; sensorizec glove; Driver circuits; Hardware; Medical services; Monitoring; Universal Serial Bus; Variable speed drives; ALS; Parkinson; embedded system; finger tapping; force sensitive resistor; hand grip strength; sensor device;
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2010 12th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lyon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6374-9
DOI :
10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556550
