A wearable system for long-term ubiquitous monitoring of common motor symptoms in patients with Parkinson´s disease

Author

Tsipouras, M.G. ; Tzallas, A.T. ; Karvounis, E.C. ; Tsalikakis, Dimitrios G. ; Cancela, Jorge ; Pastorino, Matteo ; Arredondo Waldmeyer, Maria Teresa ; Konitsiotis, Spiros ; Fotiadis, Dimitrios I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mater. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

fYear

2014

fDate

1-4 June 2014

Firstpage

173

Lastpage

176

Abstract

PERFORM is a system for the monitoring, assessment and management of patient with Parkinson´s disease (PD). It comprises of three subsystems: (i) Multi-Sensor Monitoring Unit, (ii) the Local Base Unit, and (iii) the Centralized Hospital unit. The wearable, multi-sensor monitoring unit (WMSMU) of the PERFORM system is presented in this work. This unit plays an essential role in the overall PERFORM system since it is responsible to record and pre-process accelerometer and gyroscope signals that are later used by the various components of the Local Base Unit in order to classify and quantify the symptoms and motor status of the PD patients. The WMSMU was evaluated in a large set of pilot studies in PD patients.

Keywords

accelerometers; biomechanics; biomedical measurement; diseases; gyroscopes; medical computing; patient monitoring; ubiquitous computing; PERFORM; Parkinson´s disease patient assessment; Parkinson´s disease patient management; Parkinson´s disease patient monitoring; WMSMU; accelerometer signals; centralized hospital unit; common motor symptoms; gyroscope signals; local base unit; long term ubiquitous monitoring; wearable multisensor monitoring unit; wearable system; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Gyroscopes; Monitoring; Performance evaluation; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Valencia

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BHI.2014.6864332

Filename

6864332