Video-based automatic baby motion analysis for early neurological disorder diagnosis: state of the art and future directions

M Leo, GM Bernava, P Carcagnì, C Distante - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) are impairments of the growth and development of
the brain and/or central nervous system. In the light of clinical findings on early diagnosis of …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches in cerebral palsy diagnosis, prognosis, and management: a comprehensive review

SD Balgude, S Gite, B Pradhan, CW Lee - PeerJ Computer Science, 2024 - peerj.com
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of disorders that alters patients' muscle coordination, posture,
and movement, resulting in a wide range of deformities. Cerebral palsy can be caused by …

ChildPlay: A New Benchmark for Understanding Children's Gaze Behaviour

S Tafasca, A Gupta, JM Odobez - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Gaze behaviors such as eye-contact or shared attention are important markers for
diagnosing developmental disorders in children. While previous studies have looked at …

Posture-based infant action recognition in the wild with very limited data

X Huang, L Luan… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Automatic detection of infant actions from home videos could aid medical and behavioral
specialists in the early detection of motor impairments in infancy. However, most computer …

Computer Vision Tasks for Ambient Intelligence in Children's Health

D Germanese, S Colantonio, M Del Coco, P Carcagnì… - Information, 2023 - mdpi.com
Computer vision is a powerful tool for healthcare applications since it can provide objective
diagnosis and assessment of pathologies, not depending on clinicians' skills and …

Artificial intelligence detects awareness of functional relation with the environment in 3 month old babies

M Khodadadzadeh, AT Sloan, NA Jones, D Coyle… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
A recent experiment probed how purposeful action emerges in early life by manipulating
infants' functional connection to an object in the environment (ie, tethering an infant's foot to …

NeoVault: empowering neonatal research through a neonate data hub

J Pigueiras-del-Real, A Ruiz-Zafra… - BMC pediatrics, 2024 - Springer
Background Stability during early postnatal life in preterm infants is related to better
outcomes. Although vital signs are monitored continuously in Neonatal Intensive Care …

ToddlerAct: A Toddler Action Recognition Dataset for Gross Motor Development Assessment

HW Huang, J Sun, CY Yang, Z Jiang, LY Huang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Assessing gross motor development in toddlers is crucial for understanding their physical
development and identifying potential developmental delays or disorders. However, existing …

TwinEDA: a sustainable deep-learning approach for limb-position estimation in preterm infants' depth images

L Migliorelli, A Cacciatore, V Ottaviani… - Medical & Biological …, 2023 - Springer
Early diagnosis of neurodevelopmental impairments in preterm infants is currently based on
the visual analysis of newborns' motion patterns by trained operators. To help automatize …

An accurate estimation of preterm infants' limb pose from depth images using deep neural networks with densely connected atrous spatial convolutions

L Migliorelli, E Frontoni, S Moccia - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Continuing monitoring preterm infants' spontaneous motility during and after the
hospitalization is of primary importance to early recognizing preterm-birth neurological …