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Tremor Measurement System for Neurological Disorders Screening

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In this paper is described an acquisition method for tremor signal using accelerometer in patients with Parkinson’s disease. The system acquires the acceleration information from WiiTM accelerometer sensor using the Bluetooth connection. The tremor signal data are automatically uploaded on a server for further analysis, using FTP protocol. This tremor signal is processed using FFT and Wavelet filters in order to assists and helps the specialists in differential diagnosis between Parkinson’s disease and other neurological diseases.

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This work was supported by the Romanian National Program (PN-II-ID-PCE-2012-4-0608 no. 48/02.09.2013), “Analysis of novel risk factors influencing control of food intake and regulation of body weight” [23].

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  1. Computers, Electronics and Automation Department, Stefan cel Mare University, 13 Universitatii Street, 720229, Suceava, Romania

    Iuliana Chiuchisan & Iulian Chiuchisan

  2. Department of Health and Human Development, Stefan cel Mare University, 13 Universitatii Street, 720229, Suceava, Romania

    Oana Geman

  3. Electrotechnics Department, Stefan cel Mare University, 13 Universitatii Street, 720229, Suceava, Romania

    Rodica-Mariana Milici & Laurentiu-Dan Milici

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  3. Department of Automatics and Applied Informatics, Faculty of Engineering, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania

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Chiuchisan, I., Chiuchisan, I., Geman, O., Milici, RM., Milici, LD. (2018). Tremor Measurement System for Neurological Disorders Screening. In: Balas, V., Jain, L., Balas, M. (eds) Soft Computing Applications. SOFA 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 633. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62521-8_28

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