deFOG - A real time system for detection and unfreezing of gait of Parkinson's patients

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5151-5154

  Jovanov, E ^a   Wang, E ^b   Verhagen, L ^b   Fredrickson, M ^a   Fratangelo, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Freezing of gait; Movement disorders; Parkinson's disease; Real time processing; Wearable monitoring

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; FREEZING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

FALL-RELATED INJURY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FREEZING OF GAITS; MAXIMUM LATENCY; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PARKINSON'S DISEASE; REALTIME PROCESSING; WIRELESS HEADSETS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 77950981103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334257     Document Type: Conference Paper

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