Towards quantifying the impact of Parkinson´s disease using GPS and lifespace assessment

Author

Ireland, David ; McBride, Simon ; Liddle, Jacki ; Chenery, Helen

Author_Institution

Comput. Inf., Australian e-Health Res. Centre, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

fYear

2013

fDate

16-18 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

564

Lastpage

569

Abstract

A lifespace assessment comprising of metrics and clustering algorithms is applied to a GPS data-set released by the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Seven participants of the study who had been diagnosed with Parkinson´s disease of various levels carried a smart-phone which recorded GPS data every second. Metrics indicated a relationship between lifespace measured using GPS and the severity of symptoms due to Parkinson´s disease. This assessment has potential future application in clinical monitoring of symptom severity and treatment efficacy, and in broadly monitoring population time use and community mobility/transportation.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; biomedical communication; diseases; health care; medical information systems; patient diagnosis; smart phones; GPS data-set assessment; Parkinson disease diagnosis; clinical monitoring; clustering algorithms; lifespace assessment; metrics algorithms; smart phone; symptom severity; treatment efficacy; Brightness; Communities; Global Positioning System; Measurement; Monitoring; Parkinson´s disease; Sensors; Prognostics and health management; cellular phones; health information management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), 2013 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2760-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMEI.2013.6747004

Filename

6747004