TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Gait and balance patterns related to Free-Walking and TUG tests in Parkinson's Disease based on plantar pressure data
JO  - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
A1  - Tsakanikas, Vassilis D.
A1  - Dimopoulos, Dimitrios G.
A1  - Tachos, Nikolaos S.
A1  - Chatzaki, Chariklia
A1  - Skaramagkas, Vasileios
A1  - Christodoulakis, Georgios
A1  - Tsiknakis, Manolis
A1  - Fotiadis, Dimitrios I.
SP  - 236
EP  - 239
VL  - 2021
IS  - 
N2  - Continuous monitoring of patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD) is critical for their effective management, as early detection of improvement or degradation signs play an important role on pharmaceutical and/or interventional plans. Within this work, a group of seven PD patients and a group of ten controls performed a set of exercises related to the evaluation of PD gait. Plantar pressure signals were collected and used to derive a set of analytics. Statistical tests and feature selection approaches revealed that the spatial distribution of the Center of Pressure during a static balance exercise is the most discriminative analytic and may be used for every-day monitoring of the patients. <br><br>RESULTS have revealed that out of the 28 features extracted from the collected signals, 10 were statistically significant (p < 0.05) and can be used to machine learning algorithms and/or similar approaches.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2375-7477
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9629637
ID  - ref1
ER  -