학술논문

Video-Based Activity Recognition for Automated Motor Assessment of Parkinson's Disease
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics IEEE J. Biomed. Health Inform. Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Journal of. 27(10):5032-5041 Oct, 2023
Subject
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Diseases
Data models
Activity recognition
Predictive models
Convolution
Pose estimation
Training
computer vision
graph neural networks
Parkinson's disease
telemedicine
Language
ISSN
2168-2194
2168-2208
Abstract
Over the last decade, video-enabled mobile devices have become ubiquitous, while advances in markerless pose estimation allow an individual's body position to be tracked accurately and efficiently across the frames of a video. Previous work by this and other groups has shown that pose-extracted kinematic features can be used to reliably measure motor impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD). This presents the prospect of developing an asynchronous and scalable, video-based assessment of motor dysfunction. Crucial to this endeavour is the ability to automatically recognise the class of an action being performed, without which manual labelling is required. Representing the evolution of body joint locations as a spatio-temporal graph, we implement a deep-learning model for video and frame-level classification of activities performed according to part 3 of the Movement Disorder Society Unified PD Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS). We train and validate this system using a dataset of n = 7310 video clips, recorded at 5 independent sites. This approach reaches human-level performance in detecting and classifying periods of activity within monocular video clips. Our framework could support clinical workflows and patient care at scale through applications such as quality monitoring of clinical data collection, automated labelling of video streams, or a module within a remote self-assessment system.