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This paper presents a new method for medical diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's, by extracting and using latent information from trained Deep convolutional, or convolutional-recurrent Neural Networks (DNNs). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Ilianna Kollia , Andreas-Georgios Stafylopatis , Stefanos Kollias

Atypical Parkinsonian Disorders (APD), also known as Parkinson-plus syndrome, are a group of neurodegenerative diseases that include progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and multiple system atrophy (MSA). In the early stages, overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Mengyu Li , Ingibjörg Kristjánsdóttir , Thilo van Eimeren , Kathrin Giehl , Lotta M. Ellingsen , the ASAP Neuroimaging Initiative

Curriculum learning is a bio-inspired training technique that is widely adopted to machine learning for improved optimization and better training of neural networks regarding the convergence rate or obtained accuracy. The main concept in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Fatemeh Azimi , Jean-Francois Jacques Nicolas Nies , Sebastian Palacio , Federico Raue , Jörn Hees , Andreas Dengel

Parkinson's Disease (PD) diagnosis remains challenging. This study applies Convolutional Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (ConvKANs), integrating learnable spline-based activation functions into convolutional layers, for PD classification using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Salil B Patel , Vicky Goh , James F FitzGerald , Chrystalina A Antoniades

In this study, we explored the use of spectrograms to represent handwriting signals for assessing neurodegenerative diseases, including 42 healthy controls (CTL), 35 subjects with Parkinson's Disease (PD), 21 with Alzheimer's Disease (AD),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Sarah Laouedj , Yuzhe Wang , Jesus Villalba , Thomas Thebaud , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Najim Dehak

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder that severely diminishes patients' quality of life. Its global prevalence has increased markedly in recent decades. Current diagnostic workflows are complex and heavily reliant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Shuai Shao , Yan Wang , Shu Jiang , Shiyuan Zhao , Di Yang , Jiangtao Wang , Yutong Bai , Jianguo Zhang

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a non-negligible eye disease among patients with Diabetes Mellitus, and automatic retinal image analysis algorithm for the DR screening is in high demand. Considering the resolution of retinal image is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Kang Zhou , Zaiwang Gu , Wen Liu , Weixin Luo , Jun Cheng , Shenghua Gao , Jiang Liu

Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the major public health problems in the world. It is a well-known fact that around one million people suffer from Parkinson's disease in the United States whereas the number of people suffering from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Kamal Nayan Reddy Challa , Venkata Sasank Pagolu , Ganapati Panda , Babita Majhi

Screening mammography is an important front-line tool for the early detection of breast cancer, and some 39 million exams are conducted each year in the United States alone. Here, we describe a multi-scale convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-24 William Lotter , Greg Sorensen , David Cox

Algorithmic image-based diagnosis and prognosis of neurodegenerative diseases on longitudinal data has drawn great interest from computer vision researchers. The current state-of-the-art models for many image classification tasks are based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Jie Zhang , Qingyang Li , Richard J. Caselli , Jieping Ye , Yalin Wang

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common and complex neurodegenerative disorder with 5 stages in the Hoehn and Yahr scaling. Given the heterogeneity of PD, it is challenging to classify early stages 1 and 2 and detect brain function…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-22 Xueqi Guo , Sule Tinaz , Nicha C. Dvornek

Training neural networks is traditionally done by providing a sequence of random mini-batches sampled uniformly from the entire training data. In this work, we analyze the effect of curriculum learning, which involves the non-uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Guy Hacohen , Daphna Weinshall

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease with a high degree of heterogeneity in its clinical features, rate of progression, and change of variables over time. In this work, we present a novel data-driven, network-based…

Applications · Statistics 2020-07-01 Sanjukta Krishnagopal , Rainer Von Coelln , Lisa M. Shulman , Michelle Girvan

Parkinson's disease is the world's fastest-growing neurological disorder. Research to elucidate the mechanisms of Parkinson's disease and automate diagnostics would greatly improve the treatment of patients with Parkinson's disease. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Charlie Tran , Kai Shen , Kang Liu , Akshay Ashok , Adolfo Ramirez-Zamora , Jinghua Chen , Yulin Li , Ruogu Fang

Accurate evaluation of Parkinsons disease (PD) severity is essential for effective clinical management and intervention development. Despite the proposal of several gesture based PD recognition systems, including those using the finger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Najmul Hassan , Md Maruf Al Hossain , Yuichi Okuyama , Jungpil Shin

Parkinson disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, as reported by the World Health Organization. In this paper, we propose a direct three-Class PD classification using two different modalities, namely, MRI and DTI. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Sushanta Kumar Sahu , Ananda S. Chowdhury

Curriculum learning strategies have been proven to be effective in various applications and have gained significant interest in the field of machine learning. It has the ability to improve the final model's performance and accelerate the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Asmaa Abbas , Mohamed Gaber , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea

Parkinson's disease is easy to diagnose when it is advanced, but it is very difficult to diagnose in its early stages. Early diagnosis is essential to be able to treat the symptoms. It impacts on daily activities and reduces the quality of…

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting about 1% of people over the age of 60, causing motor impairments that impede hand coordination activities such as writing and drawing. Many approaches have tried to support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mhd Adnan Albani , Riad Sonbol

Machine translation systems based on deep neural networks are expensive to train. Curriculum learning aims to address this issue by choosing the order in which samples are presented during training to help train better models faster. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Xuan Zhang , Gaurav Kumar , Huda Khayrallah , Kenton Murray , Jeremy Gwinnup , Marianna J Martindale , Paul McNamee , Kevin Duh , Marine Carpuat