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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 77 |
| Journal | Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 26 Jun 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Abstract
Background: Gait symptoms and balance impairment are characteristic indicators for the progression in Parkinson's disease (PD). Current gait assessments mostly focus on straight strides with assumed constant velocity, while acceleration/deceleration and turning strides are often ignored. This is either due to the set up of typical clinical assessments or technical limitations in capture volume. Wearable inertial measurement units are a promising and unobtrusive technology to overcome these limitations. Other gait phases such as initiation, termination, transitioning (between straight walking and turning) and turning might be relevant as well for the evaluation of gait and balance impairments in PD. Method: In a cohort of 119 PD patients, we applied unsupervised algorithms to find different gait clusters which potentially include the clinically relevant information from distinct gait phases in the standardized 4x10 m gait test. To clinically validate our approach, we determined the discriminative power in each gait cluster to classify between impaired and unimpaired PD patients and compared it to baseline (analyzing all straight strides). Results: As a main result, analyzing only one of the gait clusters constant, non-constant or turning led in each case to a better classification performance in comparison to the baseline (increase of area under the curve (AUC) up to 19% relative to baseline). Furthermore, gait parameters (for turning, constant and non-constant gait) that best predict motor impairment in PD were identified. Conclusions: We conclude that a more detailed analysis in terms of different gait clusters of standardized gait tests such as the 4x10 m walk may give more insights about the clinically relevant motor impairment in PD patients.
Keywords
- Accelerometer, Classification, Gait analysis, Gait cluster, Gait phases, Gyroscope, Inertial sensors, Parkinson's disease
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine(all)
- Rehabilitation
- Medicine(all)
- Health Informatics
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In: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Vol. 16, No. 1, 77, 26.06.2019.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Development and clinical validation of inertial sensor-based gait-clustering methods in Parkinson's disease
AU - Nguyen, An
AU - Roth, Nils
AU - Ghassemi, Nooshin Haji
AU - Hannink, Julius
AU - Seel, Thomas
AU - Klucken, Jochen
AU - Gassner, Heiko
AU - Eskofier, Bjoern M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s).
PY - 2019/6/26
Y1 - 2019/6/26
N2 - Background: Gait symptoms and balance impairment are characteristic indicators for the progression in Parkinson's disease (PD). Current gait assessments mostly focus on straight strides with assumed constant velocity, while acceleration/deceleration and turning strides are often ignored. This is either due to the set up of typical clinical assessments or technical limitations in capture volume. Wearable inertial measurement units are a promising and unobtrusive technology to overcome these limitations. Other gait phases such as initiation, termination, transitioning (between straight walking and turning) and turning might be relevant as well for the evaluation of gait and balance impairments in PD. Method: In a cohort of 119 PD patients, we applied unsupervised algorithms to find different gait clusters which potentially include the clinically relevant information from distinct gait phases in the standardized 4x10 m gait test. To clinically validate our approach, we determined the discriminative power in each gait cluster to classify between impaired and unimpaired PD patients and compared it to baseline (analyzing all straight strides). Results: As a main result, analyzing only one of the gait clusters constant, non-constant or turning led in each case to a better classification performance in comparison to the baseline (increase of area under the curve (AUC) up to 19% relative to baseline). Furthermore, gait parameters (for turning, constant and non-constant gait) that best predict motor impairment in PD were identified. Conclusions: We conclude that a more detailed analysis in terms of different gait clusters of standardized gait tests such as the 4x10 m walk may give more insights about the clinically relevant motor impairment in PD patients.
AB - Background: Gait symptoms and balance impairment are characteristic indicators for the progression in Parkinson's disease (PD). Current gait assessments mostly focus on straight strides with assumed constant velocity, while acceleration/deceleration and turning strides are often ignored. This is either due to the set up of typical clinical assessments or technical limitations in capture volume. Wearable inertial measurement units are a promising and unobtrusive technology to overcome these limitations. Other gait phases such as initiation, termination, transitioning (between straight walking and turning) and turning might be relevant as well for the evaluation of gait and balance impairments in PD. Method: In a cohort of 119 PD patients, we applied unsupervised algorithms to find different gait clusters which potentially include the clinically relevant information from distinct gait phases in the standardized 4x10 m gait test. To clinically validate our approach, we determined the discriminative power in each gait cluster to classify between impaired and unimpaired PD patients and compared it to baseline (analyzing all straight strides). Results: As a main result, analyzing only one of the gait clusters constant, non-constant or turning led in each case to a better classification performance in comparison to the baseline (increase of area under the curve (AUC) up to 19% relative to baseline). Furthermore, gait parameters (for turning, constant and non-constant gait) that best predict motor impairment in PD were identified. Conclusions: We conclude that a more detailed analysis in terms of different gait clusters of standardized gait tests such as the 4x10 m walk may give more insights about the clinically relevant motor impairment in PD patients.
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KW - Classification
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KW - Gait phases
KW - Gyroscope
KW - Inertial sensors
KW - Parkinson's disease
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