Perceiving Systems, Computer Vision

General Movement Assessment from videos of computed 3D infant body models is equally effective compared to conventional RGB Video rating

2020

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Background: General Movement Assessment (GMA) is a powerful tool to predict Cerebral Palsy (CP). Yet, GMA requires substantial training hampering its implementation in clinical routine. This inspired a world-wide quest for automated GMA. Aim: To test whether a low-cost, marker-less system for three-dimensional motion capture from RGB depth sequences using a whole body infant model may serve as the basis for automated GMA. Study design: Clinical case study at an academic neurodevelopmental outpatient clinic. Subjects: Twenty-nine high-risk infants were recruited and assessed at their clinical follow-up at 2-4 month corrected age (CA). Their neurodevelopmental outcome was assessed regularly up to 12-31 months CA. Outcome measures: GMA according to Hadders-Algra by a masked GMA-expert of conventional and computed 3D body model (“SMIL motion”) videos of the same GMs. Agreement between both GMAs was assessed, and sensitivity and specificity of both methods to predict CP at ≥12 months CA. Results: The agreement of the two GMA ratings was substantial, with κ=0.66 for the classification of definitely abnormal (DA) GMs and an ICC of 0.887 (95% CI 0.762;0.947) for a more detailed GM-scoring. Five children were diagnosed with CP (four bilateral, one unilateral CP). The GMs of the child with unilateral CP were twice rated as mildly abnormal. DA-ratings of both videos predicted bilateral CP well: sensitivity 75% and 100%, specificity 88% and 92% for conventional and SMIL motion videos, respectively. Conclusions: Our computed infant 3D full body model is an attractive starting point for automated GMA in infants at risk of CP.

Author(s): Sebastian Schroeder and Nikolas Hesse and Raphael Weinberger and Uta Tacke and Lucia Gerstl and Anne Hilgendorff and Florian Heinen and Michael Arens and Christoph Bodensteiner and Linze J. Dijkstra and Sergi Pujades and Michael Black and Mijna Hadders-Algra
Journal: Early Human Development
Volume: 144
Pages: 104967
Year: 2020
Month: May
Department(s): Perceiving Systems
Research Project(s): Bodies in Medicine
Bibtex Type: Article (article)
Paper Type: Journal
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2020.104967

BibTex 

@article{GMA:EHD:2020,
  title = {General Movement Assessment from videos of computed {3D} infant body models is equally effective compared to conventional {RGB} Video rating},
  author = {Schroeder, Sebastian and Hesse, Nikolas and Weinberger, Raphael and Tacke, Uta and Gerstl, Lucia and Hilgendorff, Anne and Heinen, Florian and Arens, Michael and Bodensteiner, Christoph and Dijkstra, Linze J. and Pujades, Sergi and Black, Michael and Hadders-Algra, Mijna},
  journal = {Early Human Development},
  volume = {144},
  pages = {104967},
  month = may,
  year = {2020},
  doi = {10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2020.104967},
  month_numeric = {5}
}