Smartphone Level Test Measures Disability in Several Neurological Domains for Patients With Multiple Sclerosis.

ABSTRACT: Our long-term goal is to employ smartphone-embedded sensors to measure various neurological functions in a patient-autonomous manner. The interim goal is to develop simple smartphone tests (apps) and evaluate the clinical utility of these tests by selecting optimal outcomes that correlate well with clinician-measured disability in different neurological domains. In this paper, we used prospectively-acquired data from 112 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and 15 healthy volunteers (HV) to assess the performance and optimize outcomes of a Level Test. The goal of the test is to tilt the smartphone so that a free-rolling ball travels to and remains in the center of the screen. An accelerometer detects tilting and records the coordinates of the ball at set time intervals. From this data, we deri

SUBMITTER: Boukhvalova AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6546929 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature