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ArticleScientific reports2020

PHTNet: Characterization and Deep Mining of Involuntary Pathological Hand Tremor using Recurrent Neural Network Models.

Soroosh Shahtalebi, Seyed Farokh Atashzar, Olivia Samotus, Rajni V Patel, Mandar S Jog, Arash Mohammadi

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Machine Learning for Differentiating Essential Tremor: A Scoping Review.Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) · 2026
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  4. Phenotypical Differentiation of Tremor Using Time Series Feature Extraction and Machine Learning.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2025
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  9. Nonlinear System Identification of Tremors Dynamics: A Data-driven Approximation Using Koopman Operator Theory.International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering : [proceedings]. International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Soroosh ShahtalebiConcordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, H3G 1M8, QC, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7174-3253
Seyed Farokh AtashzarDepartments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University, New York, 10003, NY, USA.
Olivia SamotusLondon Movement Disorders Centre, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada.
Rajni V PatelDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5B9, ON, Canada.
Mandar S JogLondon Movement Disorders Centre, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada.
Arash MohammadiConcordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, H3G 1M8, QC, Canada. arash.mohammadi@concordia.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1972-7923
Concordia University · CALondon Health Sciences Centre · CANew York University · USWestern University · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The global aging phenomenon has increased the number of individuals with age-related neurological movement disorders including Parkinson's Disease (PD) and Essential Tremor (ET). Pathological Hand Tremor (PHT), which is considered among the most common motor symptoms of such disorders, can severely affect patients' independence and quality of life. To develop advanced rehabilitation and assistive technologies, accurate estimation/prediction of nonstationary PHT is critical, however, the required level of accuracy has not yet been achieved. The lack of sizable datasets and generalizable modeling techniques that can fully represent the spectrotemporal characteristics of PHT have been a critical bottleneck in attaining this goal. This paper addresses this unmet need through establishing a deep recurrent model to predict and eliminate the PHT component of hand motion. More specifically, we propose a machine learning-based, assumption-free, and real-time PHT elimination framework, the PHTNet, by incorporating deep bidirectional recurrent neural networks. The PHTNet is developed over a hand motion dataset of 81 ET and PD patients collected systematically in a movement disorders clinic over 3 years. The PHTNet is the first intelligent systems model developed on this scale for PHT elimination that maximizes the resolution of estimation and allows for prediction of future and upcoming sub-movements.

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AgedAged, 80 and overEssential TremorFemaleHandHumansMachine LearningMaleMiddle AgedMotionMovementNeural Networks, ComputerParkinson DiseasePrognosisQuality of LifeTremor

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PMID32042111
PMCPMC7010677
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