Real time analysis of the nystagmus and movement patterns in balance distidmances

Abstract

Balance disorders are difficult to manage in a diagnosis and/or trealment situation. This article presents an application for the diagnosis of balance disorders in real time, and it has been jointly developed by the UD] and the Medical Sciences Faculty from La Plata University, and is currently in use at consulting rooms. At present we hove already examined more than 300 patients, under these systems and controlled them qfter the necessary treatment. Patient response processing is emphastzed by using signal pr&essing techniques and image treatment in real time, the aim being the ob,tention 01 a totally automatic diagnosis.