Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
Early detection of Parkinson's Disease (PD) remains challenging in the medical field due to motor symptoms manifesting across different temporal scales. To address this, we introduce a Dual-Stream Hierarchical Vision Transformer (DS-HViT), a deep learning framework designed to capture the multi-scale temporal dynamics of PD-related Handwriting (HW) impairments. The architecture employs parallel micro- and macro-scale streams: the micro-scale stream models high-frequency tremor signatures, while the macro-scale stream captures gradual motor decline. The model was evaluated on the NewHandPD dataset using 5-fold patient-stratified cross-validation, complemented by bootstrap analysis and McNemar’s test for statistical validation. DS-HViT achieved an accuracy of 98.2 ± 0.8%, with sensitivity of 97.3 ± 1.2% and specificity of 99.0 ± 0.9%, significantly surpassing state-of-the-art methods (p < 0.01). Ablation studies confirmed the synergistic effect of dual-stream processing, while the model demonstrated excellent calibration with an Expected Calibration Error (ECE) of 0.043 and exceptional discriminative ability with a Diagnostic Odds Ratio (DOR) of 486.3.
Louja et al. (Mon,) studied this question.