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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Early Detection of Parkinson's Disease Using AI Techniques and Image Analysis.

Marilena Ianculescu, Corina Petean, Virginia Sandulescu, Adriana Alexandru, Ana-Mihaela Vasilevschi

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. 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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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Marilena IanculescuNational Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, 011455 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0009-0006-8196-0047
Corina PeteanNational Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, 011455 Bucharest, Romania.
Virginia SandulescuNational Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, 011455 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-2325-5316
Adriana AlexandruNational Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, 011455 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-4016-8313
Ana-Mihaela VasilevschiNational Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, 011455 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0009-0004-5926-1333

Funding

Ministerul Cercetării și Inovării Contract no. 13N/2023 (PN 23 38 05 01)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundParkinson's disease (PD) diagnosis benefits significantly from advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and image processing techniques. This paper explores various approaches for processing hand-drawn Archimedean spirals in order to detect signs of PD.

methodsThe best approach is selected to be integrated in a neurodegenerative disease management platform called NeuroPredict. The most innovative aspects of the presented approaches are related to the employed feature extraction techniques that convert hand-drawn spirals into a frequency spectra, so that frequency features may be extracted and utilized as inputs for various classification algorithms. A second category of extracted features contains information related to the thickness and pressure of drawings.

resultsThe selected approach achieves an overall accuracy of 95.24% and allows acquiring new test data using only a pencil and paper, without requiring a specialized device like a graphic tablet or a digital pen.

conclusionsThis study underscores the clinical relevance of AI in enhancing diagnostic precision for neurodegenerative diseases.

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Archimedean spiralimage analysisParkinson’s diseaseParkinson’s disease detection

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PMID39682524
PMCPMC11640201

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