Title :
PERFORM: First steps in the assessment of patient motion status and support to treatment changes
Author :
Rigas, George A. ; Tzallas, Alexandros T. ; Baga, Dina A. ; Exarchos, Themis P. ; Katsis, Christos D. ; Chaloglou, Dimitra A. ; Konitsiotis, Spiros Th ; Fotiadis, Dimitrios I.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
Abstract :
In the current work, a system for the monitoring, assessment and management of patients with chronic movement disorders such as Parkinson´s disease (PD) is presented. The so called PERFORM system consists of the patient and the healthcare center subsystem. PERFORM monitors patient´s motion status in daily activities, using a set of light wearable sensors. Based on the analysis of the acquired signals, PERFORM assesses PD symptoms and their severity, integrates patient´s demographic, clinical and history data and proposes treatment plans based on advanced data mining algorithms. In this work we present two main modules of PERFORM system, the tremor assessment module and the data miner module.
Keywords :
biomedical measurement; data mining; diseases; medical administrative data processing; medical computing; motion measurement; patient monitoring; patient treatment; PERFORM; Parkinsons disease; chronic movement disorders; data miner module; light wearable sensors; patient assessment; patient management; patient monitoring; patient motion status; treatment change support; tremor assessment module; Algorithm design and analysis; Demography; History; Medical services; Medical treatment; Parkinson´s disease; Patient monitoring; Performance analysis; Signal analysis; Wearable sensors; data mining; patient symptom prediction; signal processing; tremor detection & quantification;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine, 2009. ITAB 2009. 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Larnaca
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5379-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5379-5
DOI :
10.1109/ITAB.2009.5394349
