Telehealth in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Opportunities and Challenges for Patients and Physicians

Marchi, Fabiola De; Contaldi, Elena; Magistrelli, Luca; Cantello, Roberto; Comi, Cristoforo; Mazzini, Letizia

doi:10.3390/brainsci11020237

“…The articles were also screened for the following exclusion criteria: (1) contributions that described BCI systems mainly based on face gestures or intentional blinks to control wheelchair; (2) studies that described only a simulated system or virtual environment and in which there is no reference to real wheelchair (or prototype) movement and control; (3) studies that presented a hybrid-mental approach: wheelchairs that are based on more than one type of EEG signal (e.g. ERD/ERS and P300).…”

Section: B Inclusion and Exclusion Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

Motor-Imagery EEG-based BCIs in Wheelchairs Movement and Control: A Systematic Literature Review

Palumbo¹,

Gramigna²,

Calabrese³

et al. 2021

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The pandemic emergency of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) shed light on the need for innovative aids, devices and assistive technologies to enable people with severe disabilities to live their daily lives. EEG-based Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) can lead individuals with significant health challenges to improve their independence, facilitate participation in activities, thus enhancing overall well-being and preventing impairments. This systematic review provides state-of-the-art applications of EEG-based BCIs, particularly those using motor-imagery (MI) data, to wheelchair control and movement. It presents a thorough examination of the different studies conducted since 2010, focusing on the algorithm analysis, features extraction, features selection and classification techniques used, and wheelchair components and performance evaluation. The results provided in this paper could highlight the limitations of current biomedical instrumentations applied to people with severe disabilities in the pandemic context of Covid-19 and bring focus to innovative research topics.

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“…The full texts of 22 papers assessed for eligibility were carefully analysed. Three articles [15][16][17] were excluded for exclusion criteria (1), one contribution [18] for exclusion criteria (2) and two scientific results [19][20] for exclusion criteria (3).…”

Section: Study Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several innovative solutions of telehealth, telemedicine [2] [3] and remote monitoring systems [4] have been proposed to allow patients' follow up in remote locations using telecommunications technology.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Motor-Imagery EEG-based BCIs in Wheelchairs Movement and Control: A Systematic Literature Review

Palumbo¹,

Gramigna²,

Calabrese³

et al. 2021

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The pandemic emergency of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) shed light on the need for innovative aids, devices and assistive technologies to enable people with severe disabilities to live their daily lives. EEG-based Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) can lead individuals with significant health challenges to improve their independence, facilitate participation in activities, thus enhancing overall well-being and preventing impairments. This systematic review provides state-of-the-art applications of EEG-based BCIs, particularly those using motor-imagery (MI) data, to wheelchair control and movement. It presents a thorough examination of the different studies conducted since 2010, focusing on the algorithm analysis, features extraction, features selection and classification techniques used, and wheelchair components and performance evaluation. The results provided in this paper could highlight the limitations of current biomedical instrumentations applied to people with severe disabilities in the pandemic context of Covid-19 and bring focus to innovative research topics.

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“…Telemedicine can really help to address these issues, as it concerns the remote monitoring of vital parameters. Thus, it could be useful in minimising the spread of the virus, reducing contact between doctors and patients, better allocating healthcare resources, reducing anxiety and depression in patients through continued home monitoring [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ] and fighting neuro-degenerative diseases [ 15 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Telemonitoring in the Covid-19 Era: The Tuscany Region Experience

Panicacci

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,

Donati

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Lubrano

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Covid-19 has brought many difficulties in the management of infected and high-risk patients. Telemedicine platforms can really help in this situation, since they allow remotely monitoring Covid-19 patients, reducing the risk for the doctors, without decreasing the efficiency of the therapies and while alleviating patients’ mental issues. In this paper, we present the entire architecture and the experience of using the Tel.Te.Covid19 telemedicine platform. Projected for the treatment of chronic diseases, it has been technologically updated for the management of Covid-19 patients with the support of a group of doctors in the territory when the pandemic arrived, introducing new sensors and functionalities (e.g., the familiar use and video calls). In Tuscany (Central Italy), during the first wave of outbreak, a model for enrolling patients was created and tested. Because of the positive results, the latter has been then adopted in the second current wave. The Tel.Te.Covid19 platform has been used by 40 among general practitioners and doctors of continuity care and about 180 symptomatic patients since March 2020. Both patients and doctors have good opinion of the platform, and no hospitalisations or deaths occurred for the monitored patients, reducing also the impact on the National Healthcare System.

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Telehealth in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Opportunities and Challenges for Patients and Physicians

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Motor-Imagery EEG-based BCIs in Wheelchairs Movement and Control: A Systematic Literature Review

Motor-Imagery EEG-based BCIs in Wheelchairs Movement and Control: A Systematic Literature Review

Motor-Imagery EEG-based BCIs in Wheelchairs Movement and Control: A Systematic Literature Review

Telemonitoring in the Covid-19 Era: The Tuscany Region Experience

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