Rules Found by Multimodal Learning in One
Group of Patients Help to Determine Optimal
Treatment to Other Group of Parkinson’s
Patients
Andrzej W. Przybyszewski
1(&)
, Stanislaw Szlufik
2
, Piotr Habela
1
,
and Dariusz M. Koziorowski
2
1
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology,
02-008 Warszaw, Poland
{przy,piotr.habela}@pja.edu.pl
2
Department of Neurology, Faculty of Health Science,
Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
stanislaw.szlufik@gmail.com, dkoziorowski@esculap.pl
Abstract. We have already demonstrated that measurements of eye movements
in Parkinson’s disease (PD) are diagnostic. We have performed experimental
measurements of fast reflexive saccades (RS) in PDs in order to predict effects of
different therapies. We have also found rules by means of data mining and
machine learning (ML) in order to classify how different doses of medication
have determined motor symptoms (UPDRS III) improvements. These rules from
one group of 23 patients only on medications were supplied to another group of
18 patients under medications and DBS (deep brain stimulation) therapies in
order to predict motor symptoms changes. Such parameters as patient’s age,
neurological and saccade’s parameters gave a global accuracy in the motor
symptoms predictions of 76% based on the cross-validation. Our approach
demonstrated that rough set rules are universal between groups of patients with
different therapies that may help to predict optimal treatments for individual PDs.
Keywords: Neurodegenerative disease Rough set Decision rules
Granularity
1 Introduction
Our knowledge about brain‘s algorithms, especially about their plastic properties is still
very limited. The compensatory mechanisms of the brain are many times better than in
artificial NN, which gives a great advantage of the natural in comparison to artificial
intelligent systems. A disadvantage of such great plastic system is that in the most
cases, subject may notice first symptoms of brain dysfunctions when a big part of
his/her brain is already dead. We still do not know how to recover dead cells, as it is a
case in the neurodegenerative diseases (ND) such as Alzheimer (AD) or Parkinson’s
(PD). Neurodegenerative are related to the brain inability to further compensate lost of
many neurons in the Central Nervous System. As these diseases starts many years
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54430-4_35