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Can you diagnose a disease by drawing a spiral on paper? Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia have developed a software that diagnoses Parkinson's disease by analyzing mapping capabilities with a diagnostic accuracy of 93%.
Parkinson's disease is a common degenerative disease of the central nervous system. The main symptoms include limb tremor and slow movement. There is no cure method at present, and there are many difficulties in early diagnosis.
Previous studies have found that in patients with severe Parkinson's disease, the speed of writing and writing will slow down and weaken when sketching. Researchers at RMIT University have developed a diagnostic software that records and analyzes the speed and penpower of a user when they draw a spiral in real time to determine if they have Parkinson's disease and the severity of the condition.
Researcher Dinesh Kumar said that the software can diagnose the disease when the patient has not had obvious physical symptoms, which helps early treatment. “The time to start treating Parkinson's disease is crucial because it is too late for patients to experience symptoms such as tremors or stiff limbs.â€
According to reports, this software is easy to use, just paper, pen and a digital tablet. Researchers hope that this technology will be used in Parkinson's disease screening tests in the future to detect the condition as soon as possible and to intervene in time.
The results were published in the new issue of the Swiss academic journal Frontiers of Neurology.