Feasibility of virtual low-cost quantitative continuous measurement of movements in the extremities of people with Parkinson’s disease

Dataset of quality assurance measurements of rhythmic movements

“…A low-cost quantitative structured office measurement of movements in the extremities of people with Parkinson's disease [1] was administered [ 2 ] by raters who were certified in the Movement Disorders Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) [21] to cohorts of (A) adults with Parkinson disease ( N = 20) and (B) adults with multiple system atrophy-parkinsonian type ( N = 1) as well as to (C) healthy adults with typical development ( N = 8). All participants underwent a single test session.…”

“…They were instructed to apply the rating system for live in person evaluations of people performing the tasks of the MDS-UPDRS [22] to the signals and transforms generated by the instrumentation for this protocol. The raters were instructed to rate the abnormalities (interruptions, slowing, amplitude decrements) observed in the representations of the signals and transforms with a scale like the scale for live ratings of participants (0 normal, 1 minimal, 2 mild, 3 moderate, 4 worse) [ [1] , [2] , [17] , [20] , [21] , [22] ] as follows:…”

“…Although this dataset was obtained to identify deficits in the performance of rhythmic processes by humans, the general framework also constitutes the basis for the quality assurance of rhythmic processes by machinery and technology utilizing a vast spectrum of rhythmic activities. The sequential publications of the procedure dealt with the measurement of movements by humans conducting repetitive tasks [ 1 , 12 , 17 , 21 ]. The goal of the current manuscript is to provide the means to generalize these data for worldwide use to assess the qualities of general rhythmic processes.…”

“…This dataset represents a portion of the data acquired by the authors through a series of investigations commencing in 2016 [ 1 , 12 , 17 , 21 ] to modify and enhance the gold-standard tool for the motor assessment of people with Parkinson's disease [ 22 ]. In this article we explain the details of data collection and validation for the dataset of this article and the related datasets [ Table 1 ].…”

“…The videotapes of the original administrations have been published [23] , [24] , [25] . Validation of the original live ratings has been accomplished by trained raters who scored videos of the original live administrations of the protocol [21] .…”