Medical Xpress September 3, 2024
Researchers say we’re on the cusp of a new era where physicians will personalize care, adjusting medications and pacemakers based on videos captured at home by patients that can be analyzed by artificial intelligence.
Despite recent advancements in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, it remains a challenge to accurately measure the progression of symptoms in this neurological disorder. While noticeable symptoms like tremors, stiffness and slowing of movement can be observed, there have been few ways to quantify changes in symptoms outside of a clinical setting—up until now.
Researchers at UC San Francisco have developed a video-based analysis system enabled by machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence (AI), to quantify and validate motor symptom severity in patients with Parkinson’s...