Alireza Rashnu

Alireza Rashnu, Armin Salimi-Badr

Efficient early diagnosis is paramount in addressing the complexities of Parkinson's disease because timely intervention can substantially mitigate symptom progression and improve patient outcomes. In this paper, we present a pioneering deep learning architecture tailored for the binary classification of subjects, utilizing gait cycle datasets to facilitate early detection of Parkinson's disease. Our model harnesses the power of 1D-Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Gated Recurrent Units (GRU), and Graph Neural Network (GNN) layers, synergistically capturing temporal dynamics and spatial relationships within the data. In this work, 16 wearable sensors located at the end of subjects' shoes for measuring the vertical Ground Reaction Force (vGRF) are considered as the vertices of a graph, their adjacencies are modelled as edges of this graph, and finally, the measured data of each sensor is considered as the feature vector of its corresponding vertex. Therefore, The GNN layers can extract the relations among these sensors by learning proper representations. Regarding the dynamic nature of these measurements, GRU and CNN are used to analyze them spatially and temporally and map them to an embedding space. Remarkably, our proposed model achieves exceptional performance metrics, boasting accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score values of 99.51%, 99.57%, 99.71%, and 99.64%, respectively.

Alireza Rashnu, Sadegh Aliakbary

Understanding dynamic systems like disease outbreaks, social influence, and information diffusion requires effective modeling of complex networks. Traditional evaluation methods for static networks often fall short when applied to temporal networks. This paper introduces DGSP-GCN (Dynamic Graph Similarity Prediction based on Graph Convolutional Network), a deep learning-based framework that integrates graph convolutional networks with dynamic graph signal processing techniques to provide a unified solution for evaluating generative models and detecting anomalies in dynamic networks. DGSP-GCN assesses how well a generated network snapshot matches the expected temporal evolution, incorporating an attention mechanism to improve embedding quality and capture dynamic structural changes. The approach was tested on five real-world datasets: WikiMath, Chickenpox, PedalMe, MontevideoBus, and MetraLa. Results show that DGSP-GCN outperforms baseline methods, such as time series regression and random similarity assignment, achieving the lowest error rates (MSE of 0.0645, MAE of 0.1781, RMSE of 0.2507). These findings highlight DGSP-GCN's effectiveness in evaluating and detecting anomalies in dynamic networks, offering valuable insights for network evolution and anomaly detection research.