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ArticlePLoS computational biology2021

PDKit: A data science toolkit for the digital assessment of Parkinson's Disease.

Cosmin Stamate, Joan Saez Pons, David Weston, George Roussos

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2021. 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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4 authors.

Cosmin StamateDepartment of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-0386-7331
Joan Saez PonsDepartment of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1812-3722
David WestonDepartment of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-9459-3430
George RoussosDepartment of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-7665-7303

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PDkit is an open source software toolkit supporting the collaborative development of novel methods of digital assessment for Parkinson's Disease, using symptom measurements captured continuously by wearables (passive monitoring) or by high-use-frequency smartphone apps (active monitoring). The goal of the toolkit is to help address the current lack of algorithmic and model transparency in this area by facilitating open sharing of standardised methods that allow the comparison of results across multiple centres and hardware variations. PDkit adopts the information-processing pipeline abstraction incorporating stages for data ingestion, quality of information augmentation, feature extraction, biomarker estimation and finally, scoring using standard clinical scales. Additionally, a dataflow programming framework is provided to support high performance computations. The practical use of PDkit is demonstrated in the context of the CUSSP clinical trial in the UK. The toolkit is implemented in the python programming language, the de facto standard for modern data science applications, and is widely available under the MIT license.

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Data ScienceSoftwareDiagnosis, Computer-AssistedHumansMobile ApplicationsParkinson DiseaseSmartphone

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PMID33711008
PMCPMC7990207

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