The study converts pressure-sensor gait data into recurrence plots and applies Vision Transformer fusion models with DC-GAN augmentation to classify PD patients across treatment states and controls, achieving up to 94.58% multi-class accuracy.
Offers a noninvasive, data-driven gait biomarker and analytic pipeline that could help monitor and stratify patient treatment responses in PD, but provides little mechanistic or therapeutic target information for drug discovery.