CogCBR: A Complete Case-Based Reasoning Framework for Wearable-Sensor-Based Gait Screening of Neurodegenerative...

Wearable force-sensitive insoles enable quantitative gait analysis as a screening aid for neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs), yet prevailing machine learning pipelines give point predictions with no per-case reliability estimate, no intrinsic explanation, and no way to curate their own knowledge base. Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) mirrors clinical reasoning, but deployed healthcare CBR systems typically implement only partial R⁴ cycles, omitting Revise and Retain. We propose CogCBR, a sensor-driven framework that operationalizes the complete R⁴ cycle-Retrieve, Reuse, Revise, Retain-for gait-based NDD screening within Richter's four knowledge containers, pairing weighted case retrieval with confidence-based clinical triage and a label-verified case-base maintenance policy. On the PhysioNet GaitPDB cohort, CogCBR attains an AUC of 0.861-statistically on par with the strongest tuned baseline under matched tuning, yet the only method evaluated that also provides confidence-based triage, case-based explanation, and longitudinal case-base maintenance, the last validated in a deployment-style streaming simulation. An independent-cohort evaluation on GaitNDD yields an AUC of 0.902; under a stricter cross-modality transfer, however, CogCBR does not exceed the strongest classical baseline, which is also reported. With sub-millisecond inference and a compact footprint, CogCBR suits resource-constrained wearable and edge-health platforms. Prospective longitudinal clinical evaluation and validation in pre-clinical cohorts are left as future work.