ArticleIEEE transactions on affective computing
Exploring Complexity of Facial Dynamics in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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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
- Multi-View Analysis of Facial Expressions in Minimally Verbal Autism: Preliminary Evidence From Social Communication Observations.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Naturalistic facial dynamics enable quantitative clinical assessment of atypical expression phenotypes in children with autism spectrum disorder.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Ensemble Modeling of Multiple Physical Indicators to Dynamically Phenotype Autism Spectrum Disorder.Algorithms · 2025Article
- Caregiver report of infant behavior associated with autism likelihood in first year of life.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Autism Digital Phenotyping in Preschool- and School-Age Children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children: Early Signs and Therapeutic Interventions.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Computer Vision Analysis of Caregiver-Child Interactions in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Preliminary Report.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Blink rate and facial orientation reveal distinctive patterns of attentional engagement in autistic toddlers: a digital phenotyping approach.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Prediction of autism in infants: progress and challenges.The Lancet. Neurology · 2023Review
- A tablet-based game for the assessment of visual motor skills in autistic children.NPJ digital medicine · 2023Article
- Complexity analysis of head movements in autistic toddlers.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2023Article
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Abstract
Atypical facial expression is one of the early symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) characterized by reduced regularity and lack of coordination of facial movements. Automatic quantification of these behaviors can offer novel biomarkers for screening, diagnosis, and treatment monitoring of ASD. In this work, 40 toddlers with ASD and 396 typically developing toddlers were shown developmentally-appropriate and engaging movies presented on a smart tablet during a well-child pediatric visit. The movies consisted of social and non-social dynamic scenes designed to evoke certain behavioral and affective responses. The front-facing camera of the tablet was used to capture the toddlers' face. Facial landmarks' dynamics were then automatically computed using computer vision algorithms. Subsequently, the complexity of the landmarks' dynamics was estimated for the eyebrows and mouth regions using multiscale entropy. Compared to typically developing toddlers, toddlers with ASD showed higher complexity (i.e., less predictability) in these landmarks' dynamics. This complexity in facial dynamics contained novel information not captured by traditional facial affect analyses. These results suggest that computer vision analysis of facial landmark movements is a promising approach for detecting and quantifying early behavioral symptoms associated with ASD.
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