Parkinson’s Disease Detection by using Machine Learning

  • Unique Paper ID: 170201
  • PageNo: 3575-3585
  • Abstract:
  • Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting 60% of people over the age of 50 years. Patients with Parkinson’s (PWP) face mobility challenges and speech difficulties, making physical visits for treatment and monitoring a hurdle. PD can be treated through early detection, thus enabling patients to lead a normal life. The rise of an aging population over the world emphasizes the need to detect PD early, remotely and accurately. This paper highlights the use of machine learning techniques in telemedicine to detect PD in its early stages. Research has been carried out on the MDVP audio data of 30 PWP and healthy people during training of 4 ML models. Comparison of results of classification by Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest, K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) and Logistic Regression models, yield Random Forest classifier as the ideal Machine Learning (ML) technique for detection of PD. Random Forest classifier model has a detection accuracy of 91.83% and sensitivity of 0.95. Through the findings of this paper, we aim to promote the use of ML in telemedicine, thereby providing a new lease of life to patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease.

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BibTeX

@article{170201,
        author = {Sanjay Gandhi Gundabatini and Sasibindu Mekathoti and Ramachandran Vedantham},
        title = {Parkinson’s Disease Detection by using Machine Learning},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2024},
        volume = {11},
        number = {6},
        pages = {3575-3585},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=170201},
        abstract = {Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting 60% of people over the age of 50 years. Patients with Parkinson’s (PWP) face mobility challenges and speech difficulties, making physical visits for treatment and monitoring a hurdle. PD can be treated through early detection, thus enabling patients to lead a normal life. The rise of an aging population over the world emphasizes the need to detect PD early, remotely and accurately. This paper highlights the use of machine learning techniques in telemedicine to detect PD in its early stages.
Research has been carried out on the MDVP audio data of 30 PWP and healthy people during training of 4 ML models. Comparison of results of classification by Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest, K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) and Logistic Regression models, yield Random Forest classifier as the ideal Machine Learning (ML) technique for detection of PD. Random Forest classifier model has a detection accuracy of 91.83% and sensitivity of 0.95. Through the findings of this paper, we aim to promote the use of ML in telemedicine, thereby providing a new lease of life to patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease.},
        keywords = {Parkinson’s disease (PD); MDVP dataset; telemedicine; Random Forest; SVM},
        month = {December},
        }

Cite This Article

Gundabatini, S. G., & Mekathoti, S., & Vedantham, R. (2024). Parkinson’s Disease Detection by using Machine Learning. International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology (IJIRT), 11(6), 3575–3585.

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