Automated video-based assessment of facial bradykinesia in de-novo Parkinson's disease.

Novotny, Michal; Tykalova, Tereza; Ruzickova, Hana; Ruzicka, Evzen; Dusek, Petr; Rusz, Jan (2022). Automated video-based assessment of facial bradykinesia in de-novo Parkinson's disease. NPJ digital medicine, 5(1), p. 98. Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/s41746-022-00642-5

[img]
Preview
Text
s41746-022-00642-5.pdf - Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons: Attribution (CC-BY).

Download (1MB) | Preview

Even though hypomimia is a hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD), objective and easily interpretable tools to capture the disruption of spontaneous and deliberate facial movements are lacking. This study aimed to develop a fully automatic video-based hypomimia assessment tool and estimate the prevalence and characteristics of hypomimia in de-novo PD patients with relation to clinical and dopamine transporter imaging markers. For this cross-sectional study, video samples of spontaneous speech were collected from 91 de-novo, drug-naïve PD participants and 75 age and sex-matched healthy controls. Twelve facial markers covering areas of forehead, nose root, eyebrows, eyes, lateral canthal areas, cheeks, mouth, and jaw were used to quantitatively describe facial dynamics. All patients were evaluated using Movement Disorder Society-Unified PD Rating Scale and Dopamine Transporter Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography. Newly developed automated facial analysis tool enabled high-accuracy discrimination between PD and controls with area under the curve of 0.87. The prevalence of hypomimia in de-novo PD cohort was 57%, mainly associated with dysfunction of mouth and jaw movements, and decreased variability in forehead and nose root wrinkles (p < 0.001). Strongest correlation was found between reduction of lower lip movements and nigro-putaminal dopaminergic loss (r = 0.32, p = 0.002) as well as limb bradykinesia/rigidity scores (r = -0.37 p < 0.001). Hypomimia represents a frequent, early marker of motor impairment in PD that can be robustly assessed via automatic video-based analysis. Our results support an association between striatal dopaminergic deficit and hypomimia in PD.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurology

UniBE Contributor:

Rusz, Jan

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

2398-6352

Publisher:

Nature Publishing Group

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

25 Jul 2022 14:14

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:22

Publisher DOI:

10.1038/s41746-022-00642-5

PubMed ID:

35851859

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/171481

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/171481

Actions (login required)

Edit item Edit item
Provide Feedback