Toward an Automatic System for Computer-Aided Assessment in Facial Palsy
Importance: Machine learning (ML) approaches to facial landmark localization carry great clinical potential for quantitative assessment of facial function as they enable high-throughput automated quantification of relevant facial metrics from photographs. However, translation from research settings to clinical applications requires important improvements. Objective: To develop an ML algorithm for accurate facial landmarks localization in photographs of facial palsy patients, and use it as part of an automated computer-aided diagnosis system. Design, Setting, and Participants: Facial landmarks were manually localized in portrait photographs of eight expressions obtained from 200 facial palsy patients and 10 controls. A novel ML model for automated facial landmark localization was trained using this disease-specific database. Model output was compared to manual annotations and the output of a model trained using a larger database consisting only of healthy subjects. Model accuracy was evaluated by the normalized root mean square error (NRMSE) between algorithms' prediction and manual annotations. Results: Publicly available algorithms provide poor results when applied to patients compared to healthy controls (NRMSE, 8.56 +/- 2.16 vs. 7.09 +/- 2.34, p << 0.01). We found significant improvement in facial landmark localization accuracy for the clinical population when using a model trained with a relatively small number patients' photographs (1440) compared to a model trained using several thousand more images of healthy faces (NRMSE, 6.03 +/- 2.43 vs. 8.56 +/- 2.16, p << 0.01). Conclusions: Retraining a landmark detection model with a small number of clinical images significantly improved landmark detection performance in frontal view photographs of the clinical population. These results represent the first steps towards an automatic system for computer-aided assessment in facial palsy.
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