Automated discomfort detection for premature infants in NICU using time-frequency feature-images and CNNs

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Abstract

Pain or discomfort exposure during hospitalization of preterm infants has an adverse effect on brain development. Contactless monitoring has been considered to be a promising approach for detecting infant pain and discomfort moments continuously. In this study, our main objective is to develop an automated discomfort detection system based on video monitoring, allowing caregivers to provide timely and appropriate treatments. The system first employs the optical ow to estimate infant body motion trajectories across video frames. Following the movement estimation, Log Mel-spectrogram, Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) and Spectral Subband Centroid Frequency (SSCF) features are calculated from the One-Dimensional (1D) motion signal. These features enable the representation of the 1D motion signals by Two-Dimensional (2D) time-frequency representations of the distribution of signal energy. Finally, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are applied on the 2D images for the binary - comfort/discomfort classification. The performance of the model is assessed using leave-one-infant- out cross-validation. Our algorithm was evaluated on a dataset containing 183 video segments recorded from 11 infants during 17 heel prick events, which is a pain stimulus associated with a routine care procedure. Experimental results showed an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.985 and an accuracy of 94.2%, which offers a promising possibility to deploy the proposed system in clinical practice.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Imaging 2020
Subtitle of host publicationComputer-Aided Diagnosis
EditorsHorst K. Hahn, Maciej A. Mazurowski
PublisherSPIE
Number of pages8
Volume11314
ISBN (Electronic)9781510633957
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
EventSPIE Medical Imaging 2020 - Houston, United States
Duration: 15 Feb 202020 Feb 2020

Publication series

NameProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Volume11314
ISSN (Print)1605-7422

Conference

ConferenceSPIE Medical Imaging 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHouston
Period15/02/2020/02/20

Bibliographical note

Conference 11314

Keywords

  • computer-aided diagnosis
  • convolutional neural networks
  • deep learning
  • discomfort detection
  • infant discomfort

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