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Towards an Automatic Diagnosis of Peripheral and Central Palsy Using Machine Learning on Facial Features
C. V. Vletter, H. L. Burger, H. Alers, N. Sourlos, Z. Al-Ars
Central palsy is a form of facial paralysis that requires urgent medical attention and has to be differentiated from other, similar conditions such as peripheral palsy. To aid in fast and accurate diagnosis of this condition, we propose a machine learning approach to automatically classify peripheral and central facial palsy. The Palda dataset is used, which contains 103 peripheral palsy images, 40 central palsy, and 60 healthy people. Experiments are run on five machine learning algorithms. The best performing algorithms were found to be the SVM (total accuracy of 85.1%) and the Gaussian naive Bayes (80.7%). The lowest false negative rate on central palsy was achieved by the naive Bayes approach (80% compared to 70%). This condition could prove to be the most severe, and thus its sensitivity is another good way to compare algorithms. By extrapolation, a dataset size of 334 total pictures is estimated to achieve a central palsy sensitivity of 95%. All code used for these machine learning experiments is freely available online at https://github.com/cvvletter/palsy.
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