Approximately 50,000 to 60,000 new cases of Parkinson's disease (PD) are diagnosed yearly. Despite being non-lethal, PD shortens life expectancy of the ones affected with such disease. As such, researchers from different ...

Bag-of-Visual Words (BoVW) and deep learning techniques have been widely used in several domains, which include computer-assisted medical diagnoses. In this work, we are interested in developing tools for the automatic ...

Handwriting is an essencial skill for the performance of activities of daily life related to the expression of information in academic, work-related and leisure situations. Among adult population, there is a prevalence of ...

Several studies have illuminated how processing manual action verbs (MaVs) affects the programming or execution of concurrent hand movements. Here, to circumvent key confounds in extant designs, we conducted the first ...

This report describes a simple, inexpensive and highly effective instructional model based on the use of a tablet device to enable the real-time projection of the instructor's digitally handwritten annotations to teach ...

Handwriting acquisition is an important factor for good school performance that due to motor components required for its execution may be compromised in schoolchildren born preterm. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationship ...

Handwriting is indispensable in daily work, in academia and in the assertion of personal identity, although it may seem less used today. In clinical practice of occupational therapy, children, adolescents and adults are ...