DocumentCode :
718260
Title :
Towards neurobehavioral biomarkers for longitudinal monitoring of neurodegeneration with wearable body sensor networks
Author :
Gavriel, Constantinos ; Thomik, Andreas A. C. ; Lourenco, Pedro Rente ; Nageshwaran, Sathiji ; Athanasopoulos, Stavros ; Sylaidi, Anastasia ; Festenstein, Richard ; Faisal, A. Aldo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput., Imperial Coll. London, London, UK
fYear :
2015
fDate :
22-24 April 2015
Firstpage :
348
Lastpage :
351
Abstract :
This study focuses on the objective quantification of the disease progression in patients with Friedreich´s Ataxia (FRDA) through the use of kinematic body sensor network technology. Currently, this quantification is performed through a series of task-oriented score-based metrics, which, although they provide an efficient way of quantifying the ataxic disease, they are dependent on the assessor´s experience and they also present high levels of variability. We used our ETHO1 inertial motion capturing sensors for longitudinal monitoring of FRDA patients during sleep and we collected behavioural timeseries from which we extracted biomarkers that can objectively highlight the subtle changes of patients´ motor control system. These biomarkers exhibit trends consistent with the clinical assessments of the disease.
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; body sensor networks; diseases; neurophysiology; patient monitoring; ETHO1 inertial motion capturing sensors; Friedreich´s ataxia patients; behavioural time series; disease progression; kinematic body sensor network technology; longitudinal monitoring; neurobehavioral biomarkers; neurodegeneration; patient motor control system; sleep; task-oriented score-based metrics; wearable body sensor networks; Biomarkers; Body sensor networks; Diseases; Kinematics; Monitoring; Nervous system; Sensors;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Neural Engineering (NER), 2015 7th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on
Conference_Location :
Montpellier
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/NER.2015.7146631
Filename :
7146631
Link To Document :
بازگشت