Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, August 29, 2025

AI-Enabled Parkinson’s Disease Screening Using Smile Videos

 

With your extra risk of Parkinson's post stroke, demand your competent? doctor have EXACT PREVENTION PROTOCOLS ON THIS! Nothing exact, fire that doctor and find someone competent!

AI-Enabled Parkinson’s Disease Screening Using Smile Videos

Authors

: Tariq Adnan*M.Sc. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8012-6679  Md Saiful M.Sc. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3725-3493, Sangwu B.Sc. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3930-3079, E.M. Wasifur Rahman Chowdhury Ph.D.

Background

Parkinson’s disease (PD) diagnosis is challenging owing to insufficient access to clinical care. We present an efficient and accessible artificial intelligence–driven PD screening method leveraging the largest video dataset of facial expressions from 1452 unique participants, including 391 with PD — 300 of whom have been clinically diagnosed and 91 of whom self-reported the condition.

Methods

We recruited individuals across multiple countries — primarily North America — via social media, email outreach, and a PD research registry; patients undergoing in-person PD assessments at a U.S. clinic; clients of a U.S.-based PD wellness center and their caregivers; and individuals in Bangladesh identified as being at high risk for PD. Participants used an online tool to record themselves (either at home or in a clinical setting) mimicking three facial expressions (i.e., smile, disgust, and surprise). Facial landmarks and action unit–based features were extracted to quantify hypomimia. Machine-learning models were trained on these features to distinguish between individuals with and without PD. The model’s generalizability was tested on external test datasets (from the U.S. clinic and Bangladesh).

Results

An ensemble of models trained on smile videos achieved an accuracy of 87.9 ± 0.1% and an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 89.3 ± 0.3% in 10-fold cross-validation, with a 76.8 ± 0.4% sensitivity, 91.4 ± 0.3% specificity, 73.3 ± 0.5% positive predictive value (PPV), and 92.7 ± 0.1% negative predictive value (NPV). On the U.S. clinic test set, it achieved an 80.3 ± 1.6% accuracy and an 83.3 ± 1.4% AUROC, with a 80.0 ± 2.5% sensitivity, and 80.5 ± 2.0% specificity. On the test set from Bangladesh, performance reached an 85.3 ± 1.4% accuracy with an 81.5 ± 1.8% AUROC. The specificity, sensitivity, and NPV remained competitive, while PPV declined to 35.7 ± 4.8%. No detectable bias was observed across sex and ethnic subgroups, except on the test dataset from Bangladesh, for which performance was significantly better for female participants.
Smiling videos can effectively differentiate between individuals with and without PD, offering a potentially easy, accessible, and cost-efficient way to screen for PD, especially when access to clinical diagnosis is limited. (Funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health number, P50NS108676 and others.)

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