Machine learning and deep learning for clinical data and PET/SPECT imaging in Parkinson's disease: a review.

Machine Learning (ML) is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that is increasingly applied to several medical diagnosis tasks, including a wide range of diseases. Importantly, various ML models were developed to address the complexity of Parkinson's Disease (PD) diagnosis. PD is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor and non-motor disorders where its syndromes affect the daily lives of patients. Several Computer Aided Diagnosis and Detection (CADD) systems based on hand-crafted ML algorithms achieved promising results in distinguishing PD patients from Healthy Control (HC) subjects and other Parkinsonian syndrome categories using clinical data (e.g., speech and gait impairments) and medical imaging [e.g., Position Emission Tomography (PET) and Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT)]. Despite the good performance of hand-crafted ML algorithms, there is still a problem linked to the features' extraction and selection. In fact, Deep Learning DL has provided an ultimate solution for the features' extraction and selection related issue. An important number of studies on the diagnosis of PD using DL algorithms were developed recently. This study provides an overview of the application of hand-crafted ML algorithms and DL techniques for PD diagnosis. It also introduces key concepts for understanding the application of ML methods to diagnose PD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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