title: A Waist-Worn Inertial Measurement Unit for Long-Term Monitoring of Parkinson's Disease Patients.
abstract: Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are devices used, among other fields, in health applications, since they are light, small and effective. More concretely, IMUs have been demonstrated to be useful in the monitoring of motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). In this sense, most of previous works have attempted to assess PD symptoms in controlled environments or short tests. This paper presents the design of an IMU, called 9 × 3, that aims to assess PD symptoms, enabling the possibility to perform a map of patients' symptoms at their homes during long periods. The device is able to acquire and store raw inertial data for artificial intelligence algorithmic training purposes. Furthermore, the presented IMU enables the real-time execution of the developed and embedded learning models. Results show the great flexibility of the 9 × 3, storing inertial information and algorithm outputs, sending messages to external devices and being able to detect freezing of gait and bradykinetic gait. Results obtained in 12 patients exhibit a sensitivity and specificity over 80%. Additionally, the system enables working 23 days (at waking hours) with a 1200 mAh battery and a sampling rate of 50 Hz, opening up the possibility to be used for other applications like wellbeing and sports.
authors.affiliation: Technical Research Centre for Dependency Care and Autonomous Living-CETPD, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Rambla de l'Exposició 59-69, Vilanova i la Geltrú, 08800 Barcelona, Spain. daniel.rodriguez-martin@upc.edu.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Martín
authors.affiliation: Technical Research Centre for Dependency Care and Autonomous Living-CETPD, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Rambla de l'Exposició 59-69, Vilanova i la Geltrú, 08800 Barcelona, Spain. carlos.perez-lopez@upc.edu.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pérez-López
authors.affiliation: Technical Research Centre for Dependency Care and Autonomous Living-CETPD, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Rambla de l'Exposició 59-69, Vilanova i la Geltrú, 08800 Barcelona, Spain. albert.sama@upc.edu.
authors.forename: Albert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Samà
authors.affiliation: Technical Research Centre for Dependency Care and Autonomous Living-CETPD, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Rambla de l'Exposició 59-69, Vilanova i la Geltrú, 08800 Barcelona, Spain. andreu.catala@upc.edu.
authors.forename: Andreu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Català
authors.affiliation: Technical Research Centre for Dependency Care and Autonomous Living-CETPD, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Rambla de l'Exposició 59-69, Vilanova i la Geltrú, 08800 Barcelona, Spain. joan.manuel.moreno@upc.edu.
authors.forename: Joan Manuel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Moreno Arostegui
authors.affiliation: Technical Research Centre for Dependency Care and Autonomous Living-CETPD, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Rambla de l'Exposició 59-69, Vilanova i la Geltrú, 08800 Barcelona, Spain. joan.cabestany@upc.edu.
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cabestany
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Parkinson y Trastornos del Movimiento (UParkinson), Passeig Bonanova 26, 08022 Barcelona, Spain. bertam8@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Berta
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mestre
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Parkinson y Trastornos del Movimiento (UParkinson), Passeig Bonanova 26, 08022 Barcelona, Spain. alcaine.fisioterapeuta@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Sheila
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alcaine
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Parkinson y Trastornos del Movimiento (UParkinson), Passeig Bonanova 26, 08022 Barcelona, Spain. apratsparis@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Prats
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Parkinson y Trastornos del Movimiento (UParkinson), Passeig Bonanova 26, 08022 Barcelona, Spain. mcruzcrespo@gmail.com.
authors.forename: María de la
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cruz Crespo
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Parkinson y Trastornos del Movimiento (UParkinson), Passeig Bonanova 26, 08022 Barcelona, Spain. 11741abr@comb.cat.
authors.forename: Àngels
authors.initials: À
authors.lastname: Bayés
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D005684:Gait; D006801:Humans; D010300:Parkinson Disease
keywords: Parkinson’s disease; algorithm; inertial data capture; inertial measurement unit; monitoring