Table 4.
Technical characteristics of wearable devices.
| Study, year | Sensor | Wearable device type | Placement of wearable device | Measured biosignal | Connectivity | Host device | Sensing approach | AIa and MLb technology used | Clinical aim of AI and ML technology |
| Buckley et al [74], 2019 | Accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer | Inertial measurement unit | Head, lumbar region, and pelvis | Upper body acceleration and spatiotemporal characteristics | Wi-Fi | Data server | Opportunistic | Receiver operating characteristic and area under the curve | Determine the correlation of clinical feature and gait analysis |
| Coates et al [75], 2020 | Accelerometer, light sensor, and temperature sensor | Smart band | Lumbar region | Sample entropy and gait | USB cable | Data server | Opportunistic | IAAFTc | Determine the correlation of clinical features |
| De Vos et al [76], 2020 | Accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer | Inertial measurement unit | Lumbar region, wrist, and feet | Gait and postural sway | Wi-Fi | Data server | Opportunistic | LASSOd and random forest | Parkinson disease classification |
| Dominey et al [77], 2020 | Accelerometer | Smartwatch | Wrist | Bradykinesia, dyskinesia, and sleep disturbance | Wi-Fi | Data server | Opportunistic | No | —e |
| Dunne-Willows et al [78], 2019 | Accelerometer, light sensor, and temperature sensor | Smart band | Lumbar region | Gait | USB cable | Data server | Opportunistic | Phase algorithm | Gait analysis |
| Huo et al [69], 2020 | Force sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, and mechanomyography sensor | Smart band | Arm | Rigidity, tremor, and bradykinesia | Bluetooth | Data server | Opportunistic | 1-NNf, AdaBoost classifier, and MLPg neural networks classifier | Ranking Parkinson disease symptoms |
| Lacy et al [79], 2018 | Electromagnetic sensor | Smart finger | Finger | Finger tapping | Sensor cable | Data server | Opportunistic | Echo state network | Parkinson disease classification |
| Lones et al [80], 2017 | Accelerometer, gyroscope | Smart band | Head, chest, arms, and legs | Dyskinesia | Wi-Fi | Mobile phone | Opportunistic | IRCGPh | Parkinson disease classification |
| Mc Ardle et al [72], 2020 | Accelerometer, light sensor, and temperature sensor | Smart band | Lumbar region | Gait | USB cable | Data server | Opportunistic | Black box | Parkinson disease classification |
| Mc Ardle et al [73], 2021 | Accelerometer, light sensor, and temperature sensor | Smart band | Lumbar region | Gait and balance impairment | USB cable | Data server | Opportunistic | Area under the curve | Parkinson disease classification |
| Pantall et al [81], 2018 | Accelerometer, light sensor, and temperature sensor | Smart band | Lumbar region | Sample entropy | USB cable | Data server | Opportunistic | Area under the curve | Parkinson disease classification |
| Pantall et al [82], 2018 | Accelerometer, light sensor, and temperature sensor | Smart band | Unreported | Balance impairment and posture | USB cable | Data server | Opportunistic | Black box | Determine the correlation of clinical features |
| Payne et al [70], 2020 | Accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer | Inertial measurement unit and Smart band | Head, upper back, lumbar region, and ankles | Motor impairment and gait | Wi-Fi | Data server | Opportunistic | Area under the curve | Determine the correlation of clinical features |
| Rehman et al [83], 2019 | Accelerometer, light sensor, and temperature sensor | Smart band | Lumbar region | Gait | USB cable | Data server | Opportunistic | Support vector machine and random forest | Gait analysis and Parkinson disease classification |
| Rehman et al [84], 2020 | Accelerometer, light sensor, temperature sensor | Smart band | Lumbar region | Gait | USB cable | Data server | Opportunistic | PLS-DAi | Gait analysis and Parkinson disease classification |
| Rehman et al [85], 2020 | Accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer | Inertial measurement unit | Head, neck, lumbar region, and ankles | Gait | Wi-Fi | Data server | Opportunistic | PLS-DA | Gait analysis Parkinson disease classification |
| Stack et al [86], 2018 | Accelerometer and gyroscope | Smart band | Wrist | Instability | Unreported | Unreported | Opportunistic | No | — |
| Stuart et al [87], 2015 | Accelerometer, light sensor, temperature sensor, and eye tracker | Smart band and Smart glasses | Head | Eye movements and gait | USB cable and Wi-Fi | Data server | Opportunistic | No | — |
| van Wamelen et al [88], 2019 | Accelerometer | Smartwatch | Wrist | Bradykinesia, dyskinesia, and levodopa equivalent dose | Wi-Fi | Data server | Opportunistic | Black box | Determine the correlation of clinical features |
| van Wamelen et al [89], 2021 | Accelerometer | Smartwatch | Wrist | Rigidity, tremor, and bradykinesia | Wi-Fi | Data server | Opportunistic | Black box | Determine the correlation of clinical features |
aAI: artificial intelligence.
bML: machine learning.
cIAAFT: iterated amplitude–adjusted Fourier transform.
dLASSO: least absolute shrinkage and selection operator.
eNot available.
fNN: nearest neighbor.
gMLP: multilayer perceptron.
hIRCGP: implicit context representation Cartesian genetic programming.
iPLS-DA: partial least square discriminant analysis.