Parkinson’s disease is a relatively common illness, constantly progressing, evoking anxiety and depression resultingfrom significantly restricted independence. Its dominating symptoms include muscle rigidity, rest tremor, slowness andpostural disorders. They can lead to progressing gait disorders, hypomimia, extrapyramidal dysarthria and micrography.Acquisition of data imaging the condition of a patient and their objective evaluation can constitute a valuable toolimproving the diagnostics and treatment monitoring. The developed data acquisition set enables recording data while thepatient is performing selected tests, based on the UDPRS scale. The set consists of an infrared camera, a cameraoperating within the visible range, a microphone with a preamplifier, a graphic tablet and a laptop. A set of recordingdevices controlled by a graphic user interface guarantees the acquisition of data for the purposes of studying primarilymotor symptoms. The set of recorded data includes a face image in the visible light range and in infrared for studyinghypomimia, video images of the limbs for studying finger tapping movement regularity, hand movement regularity,lower limb agility and gait, and spontaneous and forced speech samples to evaluate the strength of the voice, its timbreand quality. In addition, the used graphic tablet enables collecting handwriting samples for testing writing speed and theforce used. The suggested solution enables non-invasive quantitative measurements and archiving multimodal datadescribing the condition of a patient, which after processing can be used in diagnostics, evaluating treatmenteffectiveness and studying the progression of the disease.
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