# InceptoFormer: A Multi-Signal Neural Framework for Parkinson's Disease Severity Evaluation from Gait

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04540 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.04540/

## Key facts

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- First posted on arXiv 6 Aug 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [Temporal Transformer Networks: Joint Learning of Invariant and Discriminative Time Warping](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.05947/) (2019)
- [Deep 1D-Convnet for accurate Parkinson disease detection and severity prediction from gait](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.11509/) (2019)
- [Vision-based Estimation of MDS-UPDRS Gait Scores for Assessing Parkinson's Disease Motor Severity](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.08920/) (2020)
- [1D-Convolutional transformer for Parkinson disease diagnosis from gait](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.03177/) (2023)
- [HCT: Hybrid Convnet-Transformer for Parkinson's disease detection and severity prediction from gait](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.17078/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present InceptoFormer, a multi-signal neural framework designed for Parkinson's Disease (PD) severity evaluation via gait dynamics analysis. Our architecture introduces a 1D adaptation of the Inception model, which we refer to as Inception1D, along with a Transformer-based framework to stage PD severity according to the Hoehn and Yahr (H&Y) scale. The Inception1D component captures multi-scale temporal features by employing parallel 1D convolutional filters with varying kernel sizes, thereby extracting features across multiple temporal scales. The transformer component efficiently models long-range dependencies within gait sequences, providing a comprehensive understanding of both local and global patterns. To address the issue of class imbalance in PD severity staging, we propose a data structuring and preprocessing strategy based on oversampling to enhance the representation of underrepresented severity levels. The overall design enables to capture fine-grained temporal variations and global dynamics in gait signal, significantly improving classification performance for PD severity evaluation. Through extensive experimentation, InceptoFormer achieves an accuracy of 96.6%, outperforming existing state-of-the-art methods in PD severity assessment. The source code for our implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/SafwenNaimi/InceptoFormer