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AuthorThe early diagnosis of cerebral palsy is an area which has recently seen significant multi-disciplinary research. Diagnostic tools such as the General Movements Assessment (GMA), have produced some very promising results. However, the prospect of automating these processes may improve accessibility of the assessment and also enhance the understanding of movement development of infants. Previous works have established the viability of using pose-based features extracted from RGB video sequences to undertake classification of infant body movements based upon the GMA. In this paper, we propose a series of new and improved features, and a feature fusion pipeline for this classification task. We also introduce the RVI-38 dataset, a series of videos captured as part of routine clinical care. By utilising this challenging dataset we establish the robustness of several motion features for classification, subsequently informing the design of our proposed feature fusion framework based upon the GMA. We evaluate our proposed frameworkâs classification performance using both the RVI-38 dataset and the publicly available MINI-RGBD dataset. We also implement several other methods from the literature for direct comparison using these two independent datasets. Our experimental results and feature analysis show that our proposed pose-based method performs well across both datasets. The proposed features afford us the opportunity to include finer detail than previous methods, and further model GMA specific body movements. These new features also allow us to take advantage of additional body-part specific information as a means of improving the overall classification performance, whilst retaining GMA relevant, interpretable, and shareable features.
Author(s): McCay KD, Hu P, Shum HPH, Woo WL, Marcroft C, Embleton ND, Munteanu A, Ho ESL
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
Year: 2022
Volume: 30
Pages: 8-19
Print publication date: 28/01/2022
Online publication date: 23/12/2021
Acceptance date: 21/12/2021
Date deposited: 17/01/2022
ISSN (print): 1534-4320
ISSN (electronic): 1558-0210
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2021.3138185
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2021.3138185
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