Intelligent Therapy Assistant (ITA) for cognitive rehabilitation in patients with acquired brain injury

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Research Article

Paloma Chausa¹  Enrique J Gómez¹  César Cáceres¹  Javier Solana¹  Ernestina Menasalvas²  José M Tormos-Muñoz³  Eloy Opisso³  Teresa Roig-Rovira³  Alberto García-Molina³ 

[1] Bioengineering and Telemedicine Centre, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain;Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Zaragoza, Spain;Centro de Tecnología Biomedica, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcon, Madrid, Spain;Institut Universtiari de Neurorehabilitació Guttmann adscrit a la UAB, 08916, Barcelona, Spain;

关键词: Therapeutic Range;    Cognitive Capacity;    Neuropsychological Assessment;    Difficulty Level;    Cognitive Profile;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1472-6947-14-58

 received in 2014-03-21, accepted in 2014-07-15,  发布年份 2014

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThis paper presents the design, development and first evaluation of an algorithm, named Intelligent Therapy Assistant (ITA), which automatically selects, configures and schedules rehabilitation tasks for patients with cognitive impairments after an episode of Acquired Brain Injury. The ITA is integrated in “Guttmann, Neuro Personal Trainer” (GNPT), a cognitive tele-rehabilitation platform that provides neuropsychological services.MethodsThe ITA selects those tasks that are more suitable for the specific needs of each patient, considering previous experiences, and improving the personalization of the treatment. The system applies data mining techniques to cluster the patients according their cognitive impairment profile. Then, the algorithm rates every rehabilitation task, based on its cognitive structure and the clinical impact of executions done by similar patients. Finally, it configures the most suitable degree of difficulty, depending on the impairment of the patient and his/her evolution during the treatment.ResultsThe ITA has been evaluated during 18 months by 582 patients. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the ITA, a comparison between the traditional manual planning procedure and the one presented in this paper has been done, taking into account: a) the selected tasks assigned to rehabilitation sessions; b) the difficulty level configured for the sessions; c) and the improvement of their cognitive capacities after completing treatment.ConclusionsThe obtained results reveal that the rehabilitation treatment proposed by the ITA is as effective as the one performed manually by therapists, arising as a new powerful support tool for therapists. The obtained results make us conclude that the proposal done by the ITA is very close to the one done by therapists, so it is suitable for real treatments.

【 授权许可】

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