Balance impairment is a major mechanism behind falling along with environmental hazards.
Under physiological conditions, ageing leads to a progressive decline in balance control …

In the past decade, the use of wearable medical devices has been a great breakthrough in
clinical practice, trials, and research. In the Parkinson's disease field, clinical evaluation is …

Among Parkinson’s disease (PD) motor symptoms, freezing of gait (FOG) may be the most
incapacitating. FOG episodes may result in falls and reduce patients’ quality of life. Accurate …

Among Parkinson’s disease (PD) symptoms, freezing of gait (FoG) is one of the most
debilitating. To assess FoG, current clinical practice mostly employs repeated evaluations over …

Freezing of gait (FOG) is a common motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD), which
presents itself as an inability to initiate or continue gait. This paper presents a method to monitor …

Bradykinesia is a cardinal symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) and describes the
slowness of movement revealed in patients. Current PD therapies are based on dopamine …

Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that alters the patients' motor
performance. Patients suffer many motor symptoms: bradykinesia, dyskinesia and freezing of gait…

Human movement analysis is a field of wide interest since it enables the assessment of a
large variety of variables related to quality of life. Human movement can be accurately …

Abstract Analysis of human body movement is an important research area, specially for
health applications. In order to assess the quality of life of people with mobility problems like …

Large margin classifiers (such as MLPs) are designed to assign training samples with high
confidence (or margin) to one of the classes. Recent theoretical results of these systems …