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ArticleScientific reports2021

A deep explainable artificial intelligent framework for neurological disorders discrimination.

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

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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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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  3. 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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  4. Subclinical tremor differentiation using long short-term memory networks.Physical and engineering sciences in medicine · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Soroosh ShahtalebiConcordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada.
S Farokh AtashzarDepartments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University (NYU), New York, NY, 10003, USA.
Rajni V PatelDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western University, London, ON, N6A 5B9, Canada.
Mandar S JogDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western University, London, ON, N6A 5B9, Canada.
Arash MohammadiConcordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada. arash.mohammadi@concordia.ca.

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN-2016-04988
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pathological hand tremor (PHT) is a common symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET), which affects manual targeting, motor coordination, and movement kinetics. Effective treatment and management of the symptoms relies on the correct and in-time diagnosis of the affected individuals, where the characteristics of PHT serve as an imperative metric for this purpose. Due to the overlapping features of the corresponding symptoms, however, a high level of expertise and specialized diagnostic methodologies are required to correctly distinguish PD from ET. In this work, we propose the data-driven [Formula: see text] model, which processes the kinematics of the hand in the affected individuals and classifies the patients into PD or ET. [Formula: see text] is trained over 90 hours of hand motion signals consisting of 250 tremor assessments from 81 patients, recorded at the London Movement Disorders Centre, ON, Canada. The [Formula: see text] outperforms its state-of-the-art counterparts achieving exceptional differential diagnosis accuracy of [Formula: see text]. In addition, using the explainability and interpretability measures for machine learning models, clinically viable and statistically significant insights on how the data-driven model discriminates between the two groups of patients are achieved.

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AgedArtificial IntelligenceDatabases, FactualDiagnosis-Related GroupsEssential TremorFemaleHandHumansMachine LearningMaleMiddle AgedMovementParkinson DiseaseTremor

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PMID33953261
PMCPMC8099874

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