A new computer vision-based approach to aid the diagnosis of parkinson's disease

• To develop a new dataset based on handwritten exams to aid Parkinson's Disease diagnosis;• To propose a new approach to extract features from those exams based on image processing;• To evaluate the features extracted from the dataset over two different drawings: spirals and meanders;• To m ake available the dataset to the scientific community.

Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - August 24, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Clayton R. Pereira, Danilo R. Pereira, Francisco A. Silva, Jo ão P. Masieiro, Silke A.T. Weber, Christian Hook, João P. Papa Source Type: research