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most citedEvaluation of handwriting kinematics and pressure for differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

363 citations

21 papers

cs.CV2024★ 363 cited

Evaluation of handwriting kinematics and pressure for differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

Peter Drotár, Jiří Mekyska, Irena Rektorová +3

Objective: We present the PaHaW Parkinson's disease handwriting database, consisting of handwriting samples from Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and healthy controls. Our goal is…

cs.SD2022★ 14 cited

A comparative study between linear and nonlinear speech prediction

Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Enric Monte, Francesc Vallverdú

This paper is focused on nonlinear prediction coding, which consists on the prediction of a speech sample based on a nonlinear combination of previous samples. It is known that in…

cs.CV2022★ 11 cited

A Naturalistic Database of Thermal Emotional Facial Expressions and Effects of Induced Emotions on Memory

Anna Esposito, Vincenzo Capuano, Jiri Mekyska +1

This work defines a procedure for collecting naturally induced emotional facial expressions through the vision of movie excerpts with high emotional contents and reports experiment…

cs.CV2022★ 42 cited

Fast on-line signature recognition based on VQ with time modeling

Juan-Manuel Pascual-Gaspar, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Carlos Vivaracho

This paper proposes a multi-section vector quantization approach for on-line signature recognition. We have used the MCYT database, which consists of 330 users and 25 skilled forge…

cs.SD2022★ 21 cited

Analysis of Disfluencies for automatic detection of Mild Cognitive Impartment: a deep learning approach

Karmele Lopez-de-Ipiña, Unai Martinez de Lizarduy, Pilar Calvo +5

The so-called Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) or cognitive loss appears in a previous stage before Alzheimer's Disease (AD), but it does not seem sufficiently severe to interfere i…

cs.SD2022★ 19 cited

Perceptual Features as Markers of Parkinson's Disease: The Issue of Clinical Interpretability

Jiri Mekyska, Zdenek Smekal, Zoltan Galaz +4

Up to 90% of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) suffer from hypokinetic dysathria (HD) which is also manifested in the field of phonation. Clinical signs of HD like monoloudnes…

eess.SP2022★ 46 cited

Contribution of Different Handwriting Modalities to Differential Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease

Peter Drotár, Jiří Mekyska, Zdeněk Smékal +3

In this paper, we evaluate the contribution of different handwriting modalities to the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. We analyse on-surface movement, in-air movement and pressur…

q-bio.QM2022★ 11 cited

Selection of entropy based features for the analysis of the Archimedes' spiral applied to essential tremor

Karmele López-De-Ipiña, Alberto Bergareche, Patricia De La Riva +10

Biomedical systems are regulated by interacting mechanisms that operate across multiple spatial and temporal scales and produce biosignals with linear and non-linear information in…

cs.SD2022★ 12 cited

Automatic analysis of Categorical Verbal Fluency for Mild Cognitive Impartment detection: a non-linear language independent approach

Karmele López-De-Ipiña, Unai Martinez de Lizarduy, Nora Barroso +4

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one the main causes of dementia in the world and the patients develop severe disability and sometime full dependence. In previous stages Mild Cognitive…

cs.LG2022★ 33 cited

Gender classification by means of online uppercase handwriting: A text-dependent allographic approach

Enric Sesa-Nogueras, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Josep Roure-Alcobé

This paper presents a gender classification schema based on online handwriting. Using samples acquired with a digital tablet that captures the dynamics of the writing, it classifie…

cs.SD2022★ 129 cited

Robust and Complex Approach of Pathological Speech Signal Analysis

Jiri Mekyska, Eva Janousova, Pedro Gomez-Vilda +8

This paper presents a study of the approaches in the state-of-the-art in the field of pathological speech signal analysis with a special focus on parametrization techniques. It pro…

cs.SD2022★ 33 cited

Assessing Progress of Parkinson s Disease Using Acoustic Analysis of Phonation

Jiri Mekyska, Zoltan Galaz, Zdenek Mzourek +9

This paper deals with a complex acoustic analysis of phonation in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) with a special focus on estimation of disease progress that is described by…

cs.CV2022★ 23 cited

Multi-focus thermal image fusion

Radek Benes, Pavel Dvorak, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy +2

This paper proposes a novel algorithm for multi-focus thermal image fusion. The algorithm is based on local activity analysis and advanced pre-selection of images into fusion proce…

cs.CV2022★ 30 cited

On the focusing of thermal images

Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Jiří Mekyska, Virginia Espinosa-Duro

In this paper we present a new thermographic image database suitable for the analysis of automatic focus measures. This database consists of 8 different sets of scenes, where each…

q-bio.NC2022★ 8 cited

A multimodal approach for Parkinson disease analysis

Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Antonio Satue-Villar, Jiri Mekyska +9

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most frequent neurodegenerative disease with prevalence among general population reaching 0.1-1 %, and an annual incidence between 1.3-2.0/10…

cs.CV2022★ 117 cited

A new face database simultaneously acquired in visible, near infrared and thermal spectrum

Virginia Espinosa-Duró, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Jiří Mekyska

In this paper we present a new database acquired with three different sensors (visible, near infrared and thermal) under different illumination conditions. This database consists o…

eess.AS2022★ 100 cited

State-of-the-art in speaker recognition

Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Enric Monte-Moreno

Recent advances in speech technologies have produced new tools that can be used to improve the performance and flexibility of speaker recognition While there are few degrees of fre…

cs.CV2022★ 11 cited

On-line signature verification system with failure to enroll managing

Joan Fabregas, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy

In this paper we simulate a real biometric verification system based on on-line signatures. For this purpose we have split the MCYT signature database in three subsets: one for cla…

cs.CR2022★ 113 cited

Biometric security technology

Marcos Faundez-Zanuy

This paper presents an overview of the main topics related to biometric security technology, with the main purpose to provide a primer on this subject. Biometrics can offer greater…

cs.LG2022★ 18 cited

Testing report of a fingerprint-based door-opening system

Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Joan Fabregas

This paper describes the operational evaluation of a door-opening system based on a low-cost inkless fingerprint sensor. This system has been developed and installed for access con…

cs.CR2021★ 185 cited

BiosecurID: a multimodal biometric database

Julian Fierrez, Javier Galbally, Javier Ortega-Garcia +22

A new multimodal biometric database, acquired in the framework of the BiosecurID project, is presented together with the description of the acquisition setup and protocol. The data…