ArticleMolecular autism2018
Objective measurement of head movement differences in children with and without autism spectrum disorder.
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 92 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Computer vision in autism spectrum disorder research: a systematic review of published studies from 2009 to 2019.Translational psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
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- A Review on Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening by Artificial Intelligence Methods.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Review
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- Differences in Head Motion During Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Across Pediatric Neuropsychiatric Disorders.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
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- Risk assessment and automatic identification of autistic children based on appearance.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Detecting Autism from Head Movements using Kinesics.Proceedings of the ... ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. ICMI (Conference) · 2024Article
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- A Study on the Screening of Children at Risk for Developmental Disabilities Using Facial Landmarks Derived From a Mobile-Based Application.Psychiatry investigation · 2024Article
- Decreased wrist rotation imitation abilities in children with autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Early detection of autism using digital behavioral phenotyping.Nature medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Deficits in motor movement in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have typically been characterized qualitatively by human observers. Although clinicians have noted the importance of atypical head positioning (e.g. social peering and repetitive head banging) when diagnosing children with ASD, a quantitative understanding of head movement in ASD is lacking. Here, we conduct a quantitative comparison of head movement dynamics in children with and without ASD using automated, person-independent computer-vision based head tracking (Zface). Because children with ASD often exhibit preferential attention to nonsocial versus social stimuli, we investigated whether children with and without ASD differed in their head movement dynamics depending on stimulus sociality. Methods: The current study examined differences in head movement dynamics in children with ( Results: Compared with children without ASD, children with ASD exhibited greater yaw displacement, indicating greater head turning, and greater velocity of yaw and roll, indicating faster head turning and inclination. Follow-up analyses indicated that differences in head movement dynamics were specific to the social rather than the nonsocial stimulus condition. Conclusions: Head movement dynamics (displacement and velocity) were greater in children with ASD than in children without ASD, providing a quantitative foundation for previous clinical reports. Head movement differences were evident in lateral (yaw and roll) but not vertical (pitch) movement and were specific to a social rather than nonsocial condition. When presented with social stimuli, children with ASD had higher levels of head movement and moved their heads more quickly than children without ASD. Children with ASD may use head movement to modulate their perception of social scenes.
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