Title
A low-cost platform for testing activities in Parkinson and ALS patients
Date Issued
01 January 2010
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference proceedings
Author(s)
CEIT
Publisher(s)
IEEE Computer Society
Abstract
The diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases has become a key point in nowadays European heaIthcare system. However, the underlying testing and monitorization processes haven't experienced the innovation and advancement required to fulfill the needs that such diagnosis and treatment present. In this paper we propose a new testing device for Parkinson Disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients. The device is designed to carry out two of the most used tests for these patients: the finger-tapping test and the hand-grip strength test. The designed system has been divided in three main blocks, which have been implemented and tested: a sensorizec glove, equipped with Force sensitive Resistors (FSR), a tiny hardware device which gathers the data and a PC application, which presents the results to the doctors. This work is part funded by the ICT programme of the European Commission (PERFORM Project: FP7-ICT-2007-1-215952). © 2010 IEEE.
Start page
302
End page
307
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Neurología clínica
Salud ocupacional
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-77957878814
Resource of which it is part
12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services, Healthcom 2010
ISBN of the container
978-142446374-9
Sources of information:
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