Identifying People with Parkinson’s Disease using Foot Pressure Data

Sang Hong Lee  nbsp

doi:10.17485/ijst/2015/v8i13/73195

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Identifying People with Parkinson’s Disease using Foot Pressure Data

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Indian Journal of Science and Technology

DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2015/v8i13/73195

Year: 2015, Volume: 8, Issue: 13, Pages: 1-5

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Identifying People with Parkinson’s Disease using Foot Pressure Data

Sang-Hong Lee^*

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Anyang University, Republic of Korea; [email protected]

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method to distinguish healthy people from those suffering from Parkinson’s disease using foot pressure data, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). We applied an FFT based on the Hamming method to extract frequency ranges of pressure data from the left and right feet of subjects. We used PCA to reduce the dimensions of features generated by FFT. A neural Network with Weighted Fuzzy Membership functions (NEWFM) was used to distinguish healthy subjects from those with Parkinson’s disease. Our method yielded accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity values of 75.90%, 61.41%, and 81.09%, respectively.

Keywords: FFT, Gait, NEWFM, Parkinson’s Disease, PCA