Eleni Vasileiou, Sofia B Dias, Stelios Hadjidimitriou, Vasilis Charisis, Nikolaos Karagkiozidis, Stavros Malakoudis, Patty de Groot, Stelios Andreadis, Vassilis Tsekouras, Georgios Apostolidis, Anastasia Matonaki, Thanos G Stavropoulos, Leontios J Hadjileontiadis
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Abstract
Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) is a chronic, inflammatory disease affecting joints, substantially impacting patients' quality of life, with European guidelines for managing PsA emphasizing the importance of assessing hand function. Here, we present a set of novel digital biomarkers (dBMs) derived from a touchscreen-based serious game approach, DaktylAct, intended as a proxy, gamified, objective assessment of hand impairment, with emphasis on fine motor skills, caused by PsA. This is achieved by its design, where the user controls a cannon to aim at and hit targets using two finger pinch-in/out and wrist rotation gestures. In-game metrics (targets hit and score) and statistical features (mean, standard deviation) of gameplay actions (duration of gestures, applied pressure, and wrist rotation angle) produced during gameplay serve as informative dBMs. DaktylAct was tested on a cohort comprising 16 clinically verified PsA patients and nine healthy controls (HC). Correlation analysis demonstrated a positive correlation between average pinch-in duration and disease activity (DA) and a negative correlation between standard deviation of applied pressure during wrist rotation and joint inflammation. Logistic regression models achieved 83% and 91% classification performance discriminating HC from PsA patients with low DA (LDA) and PsA patients with and without joint inflammation, respectively. Results presented here are promising and create a proof-of-concept, paving the way for further validation in larger cohorts.
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IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics publishes original papers presenting recent advances where information and communication technologies intersect with health, healthcare, life sciences, and biomedicine. Topics include acquisition, transmission, storage, retrieval, management, and analysis of biomedical and health information. The journal covers applications of information technologies in healthcare, patient monitoring, preventive care, early disease diagnosis, therapy discovery, and personalized treatment protocols. It explores electronic medical and health records, clinical information systems, decision support systems, medical and biological imaging informatics, wearable systems, body area/sensor networks, and more. Integration-related topics like interoperability, evidence-based medicine, and secure patient data are also addressed.