Consistent Explainable features for Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment through Handwriting
Thomas Thebaud, Esther S Oh, Laureano Moro‐Velazquez, Najim Dehak · 2025
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Description
Thomas Thebaud, Esther Oh, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, and Najim Dehak test handwriting as a sign of Alzheimer's disease in a 2025 study. Body moves shift early in such brain illness, long before clear mind loss shows. Handwriting taps those moves in a way that a pen tablet can record in fine detail.
The team gave 69 adults, 25 with the illness or mild mind loss, 13 tasks on a tablet. Tasks ranged from holding the pen still to drawing spirals and writing text. From each trace they built 367 plain measures of speed, tilt, and press. Half of those measures split the groups cleanly, and speed traits led the pack. Such traits could aid cheap early checks.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Thomas Thebaud, Esther S Oh, Laureano Moro‐Velazquez, Najim Dehak |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |