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. 2022 Jun 23;9(7):273. doi: 10.3390/bioengineering9070273

Table 3.

Facial-recognition-based diagnosis system for neurodegenerative diseases.

Study Disease Data Sample Size Method Efficacy
Bandini et al. [60] PD Video 17 PD, 17 HC Intraface tracking algorithm, Euclidean distance, SVM Difference (p < 0.05) between PD and HC
Rajnoha et al. [61] PD Image 50 PD, 50 HC Random Forests, XGBoost Accuracy = 67.33%
Jin et al. [23] PD Video 33 PD, 31 HC Face++ [62], tremor extraction, LSTM neural network Precision = 86%
Ali et al. [5] PD Video 61 PD, 543 HC OpenFace 2.0 [24], SVM Accuracy = 95.6%
Hou et al. [63] PD Video 70 PD, 70 HC HOG, LBP, SVM, k-NN, Random Forests F1 = 88%
Nam et al. [25] AD Video 17 AD, 17 HC OpenFace 2.0 [24], extract movement coordinates to calculate Spearman’s correlation coefficient Difference (p < 0.05) between AD and HC
Umeda et al. [64] AD Image 121 AD, 117 HC Xception, SENet50, ResNet50, VGG16, and simple CNN with SGD and Adam optimizer Xception with Adam showed the best accuracy = 94%
Bandini et al. [18] ALS Video 11 ALS, 11 HC AAM, CLM, ERT, SDM, FAN Accuracy = 88.9%

Abbreviations and explanations: PD, Parkinson’s disease; AD, Alzheimer’s disease; ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; HC, healthy control; SVM, Support Vector Machines; LSTM, Long Short-Term Memory; HOG, Histogram of Oriented Gradient; LBP, Local Binary Pattern; k-NN, k-Nearest Neighbors; AAM, active appearance models; CLM, constrained local model; ERT, ensemble of regression trees; SDM, supervised descent method; FAN, face alignment network.