Dynamic false-negative-driven loss optimisation for the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease using handwritten data
摘要
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that presents motor and non-motor impairments. Handwriting analysis offers a non-invasive and cost-effective alternative to conventional clinical diagnosis. Although deep learning methods have shown promising results for handwriting-based Parkinson’s disease detection, their performance is often affected by class imbalance and elevated false-negative rates, which are particularly harmful in medical diagnosis due to delayed intervention. To address this limitation, we propose a False Negative Driven Dynamic Weighted Cross-Entropy (FN-DDWCE) loss that adaptively penalises classes with higher false-negative occurrences. The proposed loss is integrated into a feature-level fusion model combining ResNet50 and MobileNetV2. Experiments on a six-class handwriting dataset achieve an accuracy of 95.01% with a reduced false-negative rate of 5.71%.