Computer Vision Analysis for Quantification of Autism Risk Behaviors.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
Observational behavior analysis plays a key role for the discovery and evaluation of risk markers for many neurodevelopmental disorders. Research on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) suggests that behavioral risk markers can be observed at 12 months of age or earlier, with diagnosis possible at 18 months. To date, these studies and evaluations involving observational analysis tend to rely heavily on clinical practitioners and specialists who have undergone intensive training to be able to reliably administer carefully designed behavioural-eliciting tasks, code the resulting behaviors, and interpret such behaviors. These methods are therefore extremely expensive, time-intensive, and are not easily scalable for large population or longitudinal observational analysis. We developed a self-contained, closed-loop, mobile application with movie stimuli designed to engage the child's attention and elicit specific behavioral and social responses, which are recorded with a mobile device camera and then analyzed via computer vision algorithms. Here, in addition to presenting this paradigm, we validate the system to measure engagement, name-call responses, and emotional responses of toddlers with and without ASD who were presented with the application. Additionally, we show examples of how the proposed framework can further risk marker research with fine-grained quantification of behaviors. The results suggest these objective and automatic methods can be considered to aid behavioral analysis, and can be suited for objective automatic analysis for future studies.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Hashemi, J; Dawson, G; Carpenter, KLH; Campbell, K; Qiu, Q; Espinosa, S; Marsan, S; Baker, JP; Egger, HL; Sapiro, G
Published Date
- 2021
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 12 / 1
Start / End Page
- 215 - 226
PubMed ID
- 35401938
Pubmed Central ID
- PMC8993160
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 1949-3045
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1109/taffc.2018.2868196
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- United States