Super-Fast Parkinson's App Will Track Symptoms More Closely
From: New Scientist - 03/03/2017
By: Timothy Revell

Researchers at Birkbeck, University of London in the UK have developed
CloudUPDRS, a smartphone application that uses deep learning to enable people
suffering from Parkinson's disease to quickly test their symptoms at home.
The researchers say the app could help Parkinson's patients closely monitor
the disease's progression, and learn how lifestyle factors may affect their
symptoms. Patients suffer from a range of symptoms, but it is difficult to
develop a solid picture of how those factors interact. One of the app's tests
measures tremors by asking the user to hold the phone flat on their hand,
while another measures gait by getting the user to walk five meters in a
straight line and back with the phone in their pocket. The app is equipped
with a deep-learning algorithm, which the researchers trained to recognize
abnormal actions with an accuracy of 92.5 percent.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2123459-super-fast-parkinsons-app-will-track-symptoms-more-closely

Links:
CloudUPDRS Project
http://www.updrs.net

CloudUPDRS
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.ac.bbk.dcs.cloudupdrs&hl=en

The cloudUPDRS smartphone app: home monitoring for Parkinson's Disease
http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~gr/pdf/RSM_2016.pdf