Evaluation of handwriting kinematics and pressure for
differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

J 2016

Evaluation of handwriting kinematics and pressure for differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

DROTÁR, Peter, Jiří MEKYSKA, Irena REKTOROVÁ, Lucia MASÁROVÁ, Zdeněk SMÉKAL et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Evaluation of handwriting kinematics and pressure for differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

Authors

DROTÁR, Peter (203 Czech Republic), Jiří MEKYSKA (203 Czech Republic), Irena REKTOROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Lucia MASÁROVÁ (703 Slovakia), Zdeněk SMÉKAL (203 Czech Republic) and Marcos FAUNDEZ-ZANUY (724 Spain)

Edition

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Amsterdam, Elsevier Science BV, 2016, 0933-3657

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

30000 3. Medical and Health Sciences

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.009

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14110/16:00088939

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2016.01.004

UT WoS

000374078900003

Keywords in English

Decision support system; Support vector machine classifier; Handwriting database; Handwriting pressure; Parkinson's disease; PD dysgraphia

Abstract

V originále

Objective: We present the PaHaW Parkinson's disease handwriting database, consisting of handwriting samples from Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and healthy controls. Our goal is to show that kinematic features and pressure features in handwriting can be used for the differential diagnosis of PD. Methods and material: The database contains records from 37 PD patients and 38 healthy controls performing eight different handwriting tasks. The tasks include drawing an Archimedean spiral, repetitively writing orthographically simple syllables and words, and writing of a sentence. In addition to the conventional kinematic features related to the dynamics of handwriting, we investigated new pressure features based on the pressure exerted on the writing surface. To discriminate between PD patients and healthy subjects, three different classifiers were compared: K-nearest neighbors (K-NN), ensemble AdaBoost classifier, and support vector machines (SVM). Results: For predicting PD based on kinematic and pressure features of handwriting, the best performing model was SVM with classification accuracy of P-acc = 81.3% (sensitivity P-sen = 87.4% and specificity of P-spe = 80.9%). When evaluated separately, pressure features proved to be relevant for PD diagnosis, yielding P-acc = 82.5% compared to P-acc = 75.4% using kinematic features. Conclusion: Experimental results showed that an analysis of kinematic and pressure features during handwriting can help assess subtle characteristics of handwriting and discriminate between PD patients and healthy controls.

Links

ED1.1.00/02.0068, research and development project

Name: CEITEC - central european institute of technology

NT13449, research and development project

Name: Spondylogenní komprese krční míchy - prevalence, diagnostika a prognóza

Citovat

DROTÁR, Peter, Jiří MEKYSKA, Irena REKTOROVÁ, Lucia MASÁROVÁ, Zdeněk SMÉKAL and Marcos FAUNDEZ-ZANUY. Evaluation of handwriting kinematics and pressure for differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science BV, 2016, vol. 67, "neuvedeno", p. 39-46. ISSN 0933-3657. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2016.01.004.

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N2  - Objective: We present the PaHaW Parkinson's disease handwriting database, consisting of handwriting samples from Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and healthy controls. Our goal is to show that kinematic features and pressure features in handwriting can be used for the differential diagnosis of PD. Methods and material: The database contains records from 37 PD patients and 38 healthy controls performing eight different handwriting tasks. The tasks include drawing an Archimedean spiral, repetitively writing orthographically simple syllables and words, and writing of a sentence. In addition to the conventional kinematic features related to the dynamics of handwriting, we investigated new pressure features based on the pressure exerted on the writing surface. To discriminate between PD patients and healthy subjects, three different classifiers were compared: K-nearest neighbors (K-NN), ensemble AdaBoost classifier, and support vector machines (SVM). Results: For predicting PD based on kinematic and pressure features of handwriting, the best performing model was SVM with classification accuracy of P-acc = 81.3% (sensitivity P-sen = 87.4% and specificity of P-spe = 80.9%). When evaluated separately, pressure features proved to be relevant for PD diagnosis, yielding P-acc = 82.5% compared to P-acc = 75.4% using kinematic features. Conclusion: Experimental results showed that an analysis of kinematic and pressure features during handwriting can help assess subtle characteristics of handwriting and discriminate between PD patients and healthy controls.
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DROTÁR, Peter, Jiří MEKYSKA, Irena REKTOROVÁ, Lucia MASÁROVÁ, Zdeněk SMÉKAL and Marcos FAUNDEZ-ZANUY. Evaluation of handwriting kinematics and pressure for differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. \textit{Artificial Intelligence in Medicine}. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science BV, 2016, vol.~67, ''neuvedeno'', p.~39-46. ISSN~0933-3657. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2016.01.004.

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