Apkinson: the smartphone application for telemonitoring Parkinson's patients through speech, gait and hands movement.
Authors/Creators
- Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave1
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Juan Camilo Vasquez-Correa2
- Philipp Klumpp2
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Paula Andrea Pérez-Toro1
- Daniel Escobar-Grisales1
- Nils Roth2
- Cristian David Ríos-Urrego1
- Martin Strauss2
- Helber Andrés Carvajal-Castaño1
- Sebastian Bayerl3
- Luis Reinel Castrillón-Osorio1
- Tomas Arias-Vergara4
- Arne Künderle2
- Felipe Orlando López-Pabón1
- Luis Felipe Parra-Gallego1
- Björn Eskofier2
- Luis Felipe Gómez-Gómez1
- Maria Schuster4
- Elmar Nöth2
- 1. Unversity of Antioquia
- 2. Freidrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
- 3. Technische Hochschule Nuremberg
- 4. Ludwig Maximilians Universität München
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Abstract
Aim: This paper introduces Apkinson, a mobile application for motor evaluation and monitoring of Parkinson’s disease patients. Materials & methods: The App is based on previously reported methods, for instance, the evaluation of articulation and pronunciation in speech, regularity and freezing of gait in walking, and tapping accuracy in hand movement. Results: Preliminary experiments indicate that most of the measurements are suitable to discriminate patients and controls. Significance is evaluated through statistical tests. Conclusion: Although the reported results correspond to preliminary experiments, we think that Apkinson is a very useful App that can help patients, caregivers and clinicians, in performing a more accurate monitoring of the disease progression. Additionally, the mobile App can be a personal health assistant.
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