A new computer method for assessing drawing impairment in Parkinson's disease

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 143-148

  Westin, Jerker ^a,b   Ghiamati, Samira ^a   Memedi, Mevludin ^a   Nyholm, Dag ^b   Johansson, Anders ^b   Dougherty, Mark ^a   Groth, Torgny ^b  

^a DALARNA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Drawing impairment; Dyskinesia; Home environment; Involuntary movement; Motor fluctuations; Motor test; Movement disorders; Parkinson's disease; Principal component analysis; Spiral drawing; Telemedicine; Test battery; Tremor; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRAWING; DYSKINESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EVALUATION; STANDARDIZATION; TELEMEDICINE; TREMOR; AGED; ART; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AGED; ANTIPARKINSON AGENTS; ART; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNET; LEVODOPA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TELEMEDICINE;

ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; LEVODOPA;

EID: 77953725166     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.04.027     Document Type: Article

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