Parkinson's Disease Detection Through Inertial Signals and Posture Insights

Manuel Gil-Martín, Sergio Esteban Romero, Fernando Fernández Martínez, Rubén San Segundo

Abstract: In the development of deep learning systems aimed at detecting Parkinson's Disease (PD) using inertial sensors, some aspects could be essential to refine tremor detection methodologies in realistic scenarios. This work analyses the effect of the subjects’ posture during tremor recordings and the required amount of data to assess a proper PD detection in a Leave-One-Subject-Out Cross-Validation (LOSO CV) scenario. We propose a deep learning architecture that learns a PD biomarker from accelerometer signals to classify subjects between healthy and PD patients. This study uses the PD-BioStampRC21 dataset, containing accelerometer recordings from healthy and PD participants equipped with five inertial sensors. An increment of performance was obtained when using sitting windows compared to using lying windows for Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) input signal domain. Moreover, using 5 minutes per subject could be sufficient to properly evaluate the PD status of a patient without losin