Volume 11 - Issue 2
The use of mobile phones to monitor the status of patients with Parkinson’s disease
- Yulia A. Shichkina
St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” St. Petersburg, Russia
strange.y@mail.ru
- Galina V. Kataeva
N.P.Bechtereva Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg, Russia
- Yulia A. Irishina
N.P.Bechtereva Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg, Russia
- Elizaveta S. Stanevich
St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” St. Petersburg, Russia
Keywords: Parkinson’s disease, smartphone, motion sensor, patient status monitor
Abstract
The article presents the results of research on the problem of using the capabilities of Mobile Touch
Phones on the Android Platform for monitoring the status of patients with Parkinson’s disease. The
purpose of the study is to create a system for user authentication to exclude the collection of incorrect
data and data not related to the patient, and for classifying the patient’s state to automate the
monitoring process of his state. The article describes the software and hardware architecture of the
solution, which includes mobile phone modules, a system for sending data to a server, and separate
modules for doctors. An apparatus of fuzzy logic was used to send data to the server; neural networks
are used to process the data in the task of classifying the state of patients. Data is collected
from the phone in two modes: interactive and background. In the interactive mode, the patients
during the day can mark the level of their activity, the presence of dyskinesia, their medications taking
and other data that cannot be collected without the participation of the patient himself. In the
background monitoring, data are collected from mobile phone sensors. Further, the knowledge that
will be extracted from this data using data mining techniques will minimize the interactive part of the
monitoring. This will make the monitoring process easy for patients and informative for neurologists.