ArticleFrontiers in robotics and AI2021
DeepFoG: An IMU-Based Detection of Freezing of Gait Episodes in Parkinson's Disease Patients via Deep Learning.
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- The evolution of trends and technology in wearable sensors used to detect falls in people with neurodegenerative diseases: a systematic review.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2026Pooled it
- Movement Disorders and Smart Wrist Devices: A Comprehensive Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Pooled it
- Insights into Parkinson's Disease-Related Freezing of Gait Detection and Prediction Approaches: A Meta Analysis.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Pooled it
- Recent trends in wearable device used to detect freezing of gait and falls in people with Parkinson's disease: A systematic review.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
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- AI-Enabled Wearables for Motor Function Assessment and Rehabilitation in Parkinson Disease: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Review
- Automated UPDRS Gait Scoring Using Wearable Sensor Fusion and Deep Learning.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Estimating motor symptom presence and severity in Parkinson's disease from wrist accelerometer time series using ROCKET and InceptionTime.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Digital Biomarkers for Parkinson Disease: Bibliometric Analysis and a Scoping Review of Deep Learning for Freezing of Gait.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Deep Learning-Based Prediction of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease With the Ensemble Channel Selection Approach.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Deep learning techniques for detecting freezing of gait episodes in Parkinson's disease using wearable sensors.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Wearable Surface Electromyography System to Predict Freeze of Gait in Parkinson's Disease Patients.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Simplification of Mobility Tests and Data Processing to Increase Applicability of Wearable Sensors as Diagnostic Tools for Parkinson's Disease.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A machine learning contest enhances automated freezing of gait detection and reveals time-of-day effects.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Knowledge mapping of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease: a bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
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Abstract
Freezing of Gait (FoG) is a movement disorder that mostly appears in the late stages of Parkinson's Disease (PD). It causes incapability of walking, despite the PD patient's intention, resulting in loss of coordination that increases the risk of falls and injuries and severely affects the PD patient's quality of life. Stress, emotional stimulus, and multitasking have been encountered to be associated with the appearance of FoG episodes, while the patient's functionality and self-confidence are constantly deteriorating. This study suggests a non-invasive method for detecting FoG episodes, by analyzing inertial measurement unit (IMU) data. Specifically, accelerometer and gyroscope data from 11 PD subjects, as captured from a single wrist-worn IMU sensor during continuous walking, are processed via Deep Learning for window-based detection of the FoG events. The proposed approach, namely DeepFoG, was evaluated in a Leave-One-Subject-Out (LOSO) cross-validation (CV) and 10-fold CV fashion schemes against its ability to correctly estimate the existence or not of a FoG episode at each data window. Experimental results have shown that DeepFoG performs satisfactorily, as it achieves 83%/88% and 86%/90% sensitivity/specificity, for LOSO CV and 10-fold CV schemes, respectively. The promising performance of the proposed DeepFoG reveals the potentiality of single-arm IMU-based real-time FoG detection that could guide effective interventions via stimuli, such as rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS) and hand vibration. In this way, DeepFoG may scaffold the elimination of risk of falls in PD patients, sustaining their quality of life in everyday living activities.
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