ALS Monitoring and Analysis System

26/3/2015

IATI MNC 3rd Weekathon Demo

Igor Shishkin, Moshe Taieb, Ran Mizrachi, Limor Lahiani, Nir Levy, Lilach Tesler and Hezi Shahmon

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

● Neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.

● Targets and kills motor neurons.● Paralyzing and eventually leading to death.

ALS Research

● No cure to the disease.● A Single drugs that prolong the patient life by several

months.● Variable disease● There is not enough data for scientific research

Project Goals

Introduce new ways for motoric data collection:

● Rough motoric data collectionUsing IMU sensors located on the smartphone, shoes and others located around the waist or chest.The wearable sensors are connected wirelessly (BLE) to the patient smartphone.

● Stored in the cloud for analysis and research

● Web UI for patient data visualisation

The wearable IMU SensorFor ALS Monitoring System

Today’s Medical Monitoring

● Patients are asked to answer a questionnaire.● Doctors diagnose physical stage by observation and

questioning: does not reflect the objective status of the patient.

Demo

Measurable KPIs● We assume that each KPI is weekly. More granular

KPIs can be obtained but are left for further research● Measured KPIs

o Covered distance / movement - measured in the phoneo Number of falls - measured by the chest sensoro Number of weekly leg steps - measured by the leg sensoro Average leg movement vector - measured by the leg sensoro Average leg polar angle - measured by the leg sensoro Average azimuthal leg angle - measured by the leg sensor

Thank youIATI Weakaton2015

SAP and Prize4Life have developed a System with a smartphone APP that allows the patients to:● Answer questions about his/her situation● Test delicate motor capabilities● Record speech for offline analysis