RGB-D'den sadece RGB'ye: Parkinson Hastalığında Postural Değerlendirme için İşaretsiz İskelet Takibinin Güvenilirliği ve Klinik İlgisi

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Axial postural abnormalities in Parkinson’s Disease (PD) are traditionally assessed us-ing clinical rating scales, although picture-based assessment is considered the gold standard. This study evaluates the reliability and clinical relevance of two markerless body-tracking frameworks, the RGB-D-based Microsoft Azure Kinect (MAK) and the RGB-only Google MediaPipe Pose (MP), using a synchronous dual-camera setup. Forty PD patients performed a 60-second static standing task. We compared MAK with three MP models (at different complexity levels) across horizontal, vertical, sagittal, and 3D joint angles. Results show that lower-complexity MP models achieved high congruence with MAK for trunk and shoulder alignment (ρ > 0.75), while the lateral view signifi-cantly improved sagittal tracking (ρ ≥ 0.72). Conversely, the high-complexity model introduced significant skeletal distortions. Clinically, several angular parameters emerged as robust metrics for postural assessment and global motor impairments, while sagittal angles correlated with motor complications. Unexpectedly, a more up-right frontal alignment was associated with greater freezing of gait severity, suggest-ing that static postural metrics may serve as proxies for dynamic gait performance. In addition, both RGB-only and RGB-D frameworks effectively discriminated between postural severity clusters. These findings demonstrate that MP models are a reliable alternative to RGB-D sensors for objective postural assessment in PD, facilitating the widespread application of objective posture measurements in clinical contexts.

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