need for further investigation, because even if it was
done with dCTD data, a prediction with a multiclass
classification can be better than by chance (Binaco et
al., 2020).
5 CONCLUSIONS
Early detection of cognitive impairment is an
increasingly important field in healthcare. Therefore,
the idea of combining machine learning algorithms
with digital drawing tasks to enable automatic
identification of cognitive impairments has been
explored for some time. With the here presented
results, which vary strongly depending on the
classification task, new insights could be provided for
handling dTDT data. Whereas the binary
classification of homogeneous and sufficiently
distinct groups works well, both binary and multiclass
classification seem to have their difficulties if the
characteristics that form a group are not distinct
enough.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was financially supported by a grant of the
Software AG Foundation, Darmstadt, Germany.
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