Publications by authors named "Gustavo H Rosa"
Article Synopsis
- Continuous monitoring of pulse oximetry (SpO2) during the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) is important for patients with chronic respiratory diseases to record desaturation levels and may lead to walking interruptions when SpO2 drops below 80%.
- A study with 145 participants showed that regardless of real-time SpO2 monitoring, the distance walked in the 6MWT was similar between groups, although those who had interruptions due to severe desaturation walked significantly shorter distances.
- No serious adverse events were reported during the testing, suggesting that monitoring does not pose additional risks despite the potential for exercise-induced desaturation.
Background And Objective: Parkinson's disease (PD) is considered a degenerative disorder that affects the motor system, which may cause tremors, micrography, and the freezing of gait. Although PD is related to the lack of dopamine, the triggering process of its development is not fully understood yet.
Methods: In this work, we introduce convolutional neural networks to learn features from images produced by handwritten dynamics, which capture different information during the individual's assessment.