Healthcare Biometrics Research Articles

Parkinson’s Disease Detection from Drawing Movements Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Nowadays, an important research effort in healthcare biometrics is finding accurate biomarkers that allow developing medical-decision support tools. These tools help to detect and supervise illnesses like Parkinson’s disease (PD). This paper contributes to this effort by analyzing a convolutional neural network (CNN) for PD detection from drawing movements. This CNN includes two parts: feature extraction (convolutional layers) and classification (fully connected layers). The inputs to the CNN are the module of the Fast Fourier’s transform in the range of frequencies between 0 Hz and 25 Hz. We analyzed the discrimination capability of different directions during drawing movements obtaining the best results for X and Y directions. This analysis was performed using a public dataset: Parkinson Disease Spiral Drawings Using Digitized Graphics Tablet dataset. The best results obtained in this work showed an accuracy of 96.5%, a F1-score of 97.7%, and an area under the curve of 99.2%.

Apple partners with academia to develop mobile healthcare biometrics

Apple partners with academia to develop mobile healthcare biometrics

Market report: healthcare biometrics

The healthcare biometrics sector is poised for rapid development. Major suppliers are working on new biometric applications for launch in 2015, while a convergence between health and fitness biometric applications and those for healthcare-related identification and authentication looks imminent.

Namibia healthcare services use fingerprint tech to counter fraud

Healthcare schemes in Namibia are to use biometric technology to address issues of fraud. This comes as researchers have found that the healthcare biometrics market is expected to see considerable growth across the globe due to a rising need to address increasing healthcare fraud, as well as to provide improved patient care and protect patent privacy, according to a report recently released by Transparency Market Research.

Healthcare biometrics: solving the staff and patient security governance challenge

Steve Gold looks at the identification, security and governance challenges facing the healthcare industry – and why biometrics can solve many of the problems facing healthcare staff and patients.

Vital signs strong for healthcare biometrics

The pressure on costs in the healthcare sector has never been greater. In the UK the ongoing planned reforms are seeking to save the NHS tens of billions of pounds each year, whilst in the US the insurance-driven aspect of healthcare there means that both direct and indirect patient care costs are always under scrutiny.

Healthcare biometrics — defending patients and their data

Protecting patient data using biometrics is a surefire way of preventing a gross invasion of privacy from taking place, but its implementation is currently patchy on both sides of the Atlantic.

Utilization of medical imaging informatics and biometrics technologies in healthcare delivery

Purpose With the large amount of image data accumulated daily from medical imaging modalities and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) in hospitals and from healthcare biometrics related databases, we can take advantage of these data resources to investigate innovative clinical service, research and education using the concept of imaging informatics. In this paper we present five independent concepts and technologies in their own right and their intertwined relationship in achieving some goal-oriented healthcare applications.