Movement Disorder Studies

Distinguishing between movement disorders and determining tremor severity from scanned hand drawn spirals using Artificial Intelligence.

• Since the distinguishing properties of Parkinson¡¯s Disease (PD) and Essential Tremor (ET) are very similar, disease diagnoses and tremor severity evaluations performed by physicians are prone to high degrees of subjectivity and error.
• From spirals drawn by PD, ET and control subjects, a computer can automatically learn features to diagnose the diseases from the spirals and to automatically determine tremor severity.
• By performing movement disorder diagnosis and tremor severity evaluation in this way, patients are more likely to be diagnosed correctly and for a fraction of the current cost ensuring that they can be treated appropriately.