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Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia characterized by dream enactment, abnormal jerks and movements during REM sleep. Isolated RBD (iRBD) is recognized as the early stage of alpha-synucleinopathies, i.e. dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy. The certain diagnosis of iRBD requires video-polysomnography, evaluated by experts with time-consuming visual analyses. In this study, we propose automatic analysis of movements detected with 3D contactless video as a promising technology to assist sleep experts in the identification of patients with iRBD. By using automatically detected upper and lower body movements occurring during REM sleep with a duration between 4s and 5s, we could discriminate 20 iRBD patients from 24 patients with sleep-disordered breathing with an accuracy of 0.91 and F1-score of 0.90. This pilot study shows that 3D contactless video can be successfully used as a non-invasive technology to assist clinicians in identifying abnormal movements during REM sleep, and therefore to recognize patients with iRBD. Future investigations in larger cohorts are needed to validate the proposed technology and methodology.
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