Objective assessment of the severity of unilateral facial palsy using OKAO Vision® facial image analysis software

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 132, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1013-1017

  Sawai, Naoki ^a   Hato, Naohito ^a   Hakuba, Nobuhiro ^a   Takahashi, Hirotaka ^a   Okada, Masahiro ^a   Gyo, Kiyofumi ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Degree of facial palsy; Facial feature extraction; Facial recognition; Symmetrical facial movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; OKAO VISION FACIAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TELEVISION CAMERA; UNILATERAL FACIAL PALSY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FACIAL ASYMMETRY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84865339255     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016489.2012.672767     Document Type: Article

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