Smartphone-based prediction of dopaminergic deficit in prodromal and manifest Parkinson's disease.

ABSTRACT: Dopamine transporter (DaT) SPECT can confirm dopaminergic deficiency in Parkinson's disease (PD) but remains costly and inaccessible. We investigated whether brief smartphone-based motor assessments could predict DaT scan results as a scalable alternative. Data from Oxford and Genoa cohorts included individuals with iRBD, PD, and controls. Machine learning models trained on smartphone-derived features classified DaT scan status and predicted striatal binding ratios, compared with MDS-UPDRS-III benchmarks. Among 100 DaT scans, the smartphone-only XGBoost model achieved AUC = 0.80, improving to 0.82 when combined with MDS-UPDRS-III (AUC's gender-corrected). A simpler logistic regression model performed better with MDS-UPDRS-III alone (AUC = 0.83) versus smartphone features, with slightly hig

SUBMITTER: Gunter KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12738540 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature