ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2023
Complexity analysis of head movements in autistic toddlers.
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- Artificial intelligence for tracking social behaviours and supporting an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis: systematic review and meta-analysis.EBioMedicine · 2025Pooled it
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- Speech pattern disorders in verbally fluent individuals with autism spectrum disorder: a machine learning analysis.Frontiers in neuroinformatics · 2025Article
- Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children: Early Signs and Therapeutic Interventions.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- A Developmental Social Neuroscience Perspective on Infant Autism Interventions.Annual review of developmental psychology · 2023Article
- Early detection of autism using digital behavioral phenotyping.Nature medicine · 2023Article
- Autism Caregiver Coaching in Africa (ACACIA): Protocol for a type 1-hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
- What are quantitative traits and how can they be used in autism research?Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023Article
- Relationship between quantitative digital behavioral features and clinical profiles in young autistic children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023Article
- Blink rate and facial orientation reveal distinctive patterns of attentional engagement in autistic toddlers: a digital phenotyping approach.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Predicting Autism from Head Movement Patterns during Naturalistic Social Interactions.Proceedings of the 2023 7th International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (ICMHI 2023) : May 12-14, 2023, Kyoto, Japan. International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (7th : 2023 : Kyoto, Japan) · 2023Article
- Prediction of autism in infants: progress and challenges.The Lancet. Neurology · 2023Review
- Head Movement Patterns during Face-to-Face Conversations Vary with Age.ICMI'22 Companion : companion publication of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction : November 7-11, 2022, Bangalore, India. ICMI (Conference) (2022 : Bangalore, India) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundEarly differences in sensorimotor functioning have been documented in young autistic children and infants who are later diagnosed with autism. Previous research has demonstrated that autistic toddlers exhibit more frequent head movement when viewing dynamic audiovisual stimuli, compared to neurotypical toddlers. To further explore this behavioral characteristic, in this study, computer vision (CV) analysis was used to measure several aspects of head movement dynamics of autistic and neurotypical toddlers while they watched a set of brief movies with social and nonsocial content presented on a tablet.
methodsData were collected from 457 toddlers, 17-36 months old, during their well-child visit to four pediatric primary care clinics. Forty-one toddlers were subsequently diagnosed with autism. An application (app) displayed several brief movies on a tablet, and the toddlers watched these movies while sitting on their caregiver's lap. The front-facing camera in the tablet recorded the toddlers' behavioral responses. CV was used to measure the participants' head movement rate, movement acceleration, and complexity using multiscale entropy.
resultsAutistic toddlers exhibited significantly higher rate, acceleration, and complexity in their head movements while watching the movies compared to neurotypical toddlers, regardless of the type of movie content (social vs. nonsocial). The combined features of head movement acceleration and complexity reliably distinguished the autistic and neurotypical toddlers.
conclusionsAutistic toddlers exhibit differences in their head movement dynamics when viewing audiovisual stimuli. Higher complexity of their head movements suggests that their movements were less predictable and less stable compared to neurotypical toddlers. CV offers a scalable means of detecting subtle differences in head movement dynamics, which may be helpful in identifying early behaviors associated with autism and providing insight into the nature of sensorimotor differences associated with autism.
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