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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2019

An Affordable Method for Evaluation of Ataxic Disorders Based on Electrooculography.

Alberto López, Francisco Ferrero, Octavian Postolache

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Alberto LópezDepartamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica, Computadores y Sistemas, Universidad de Oviedo, Campus de Gijón, 33204 Gijón, Spain.
Francisco FerreroDepartamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica, Computadores y Sistemas, Universidad de Oviedo, Campus de Gijón, 33204 Gijón, Spain. ferrero@uniovi.es.ORCID 0000-0003-3551-8160
Octavian PostolacheInstituto de Telecomunicações, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal.
Universidad de Oviedo · ESIscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa · PT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ataxias are a group of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by cerebellar dysfunction that cause irregularities in the rate, rhythm, amplitude, and force of voluntary movements. The electrooculogram (EOG) may provide clues about ataxic disorders because most of these patients have difficulty with visual tracking and fixing their gaze. Using electrodes, EOG records the biopotentials generated by eye movements. In this paper, three surface electrodes are placed around the eye socket, and the biopotentials generated by eye movements are acquired using a commercial bioamplifier device. Next, the signals are sent to the computer to be digitally processed to extract the rate of saccades as well as the delay and deviation of the gaze in response to a stimulus. These features are analysed in a novel software application designed to help physicians in evaluating ataxia. After applying several tests to both healthy and ataxia-affected patients, differences in EOG results were found. The evaluation of the reliability of the designed software application is made according to three metrics: sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. The results indicate the proposed system's viability as an affordable method for evaluation of ataxic disorders.

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AgedAtaxiaComputersElectrooculographyEye MovementsFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPhotic StimulationReproducibility of ResultsSaccadesSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedSoftwareUser-Computer Interfaceataxic disorderselectrooculogram (EOG)electrooculographyeye movementsignal processing

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PMID31480331
PMCPMC6751503
OpenAlexW2971015586

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