Journal Article

Gait Rhythm Dynamics for Neuro-Degenerative Disease Classification via Persistence Landscape- Based Topological Representation

Ivanov, Kamen, Mumini Omisore, Olatunji, Igbe, Tobore, Nie, Zedong, Wang, Lei, Yan, Yan, Liu, Qiuhua

2020

Overview

Neuro-degenerative disease is a common progressive nervous system disorder that leads to serious clinical consequences. Gait rhythm dynamics analysis is essential for evaluating clinical states and improving quality of life for neuro-degenerative patients. The magnitude of stride-to-stride fluctuations and corresponding changes over time—gait dynamics—reflects the physiology of gait, in quantifying the pathologic alterations in the locomotor control system of health subjects and patients with neuro-degenerative diseases. Motivated by algebra topology theory, a topological data analysis-inspired nonlinear framework was adopted in the study of the gait dynamics. Meanwhile, the topological representation–persistence landscapes were used as input of classifiers in order to distinguish different neuro-degenerative disease type from healthy. In this work, stride-to-stride time series from healthy control (HC) subjects are compared with the gait dynamics from patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Huntington’s disease (HD), and Parkinson’s disease (PD). The obtained results show that the proposed methodology discriminates healthy subjects from subjects with other neuro-degenerative diseases with relatively high accuracy. In summary, our study is the first attempt to provide a topological representation-based method into the disease classification with gait rhythms measured from the stride intervals to visualize gait dynamics and classify neuro-degenerative diseases. The proposed method could be potentially used in earlier interventions and state monitoring.

• Publisher: MDPI AG,MDPI
• Subject: Adult / Aged / Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - classification / Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - physiopathology / Area Under Curve / Bayes Theorem / Case-Control Studies / Classification / Cultural heritage / Data analysis / Decision Trees / Diabetes / Dimensional analysis / Female / Gait / Gait - physiology / gait analysis / Humans / Huntington Disease - classification / Huntington Disease - physiopathology / Huntingtons disease / Male / Methods / Middle Aged / neuro-degenerative analysis / Nonlinear Dynamics / Parkinson Disease - classification / Parkinson Disease - physiopathology / Parkinson's disease / Parkinson’s diseases / Pattern Recognition, Automated / persistence landscape / persistent homology / ROC Curve / Time series / topological data analysis