Evaluating handwriting characteristics as a novel assisted screening approach for Mild Cognitive Impairment in community settings
Lulu Shi, Yinxia Ren, Zhuqin Wei, Hengnian Qi, Ruoyu Zhang, Lina Wang · 2025
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Lulu Shi and five co-authors tested whether the way a person writes by hand can flag mild thought loss. Folk with such loss write with less speed, ease, and flow. A smart pen can turn those traits into hard numbers. Work on Chinese script is scarce, though its strokes differ a lot from the Latin script.
Two hundred fifty-nine older adults took six tasks with a smart pen. Four tasks used Chinese characters and two used drawn shapes. The mild-loss group paused more, wrote more slowly, and made more slips than the healthy group. Forty-eight traits were pulled from the pen data in all. Four smart-learning tools were trained on the traits, and the best sorted people with about eighty-three percent accuracy. Hand work may thus aid cheap town-level checks.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lulu Shi, Yinxia Ren, Zhuqin Wei, Hengnian Qi, Ruoyu Zhang, Lina Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |