Quantitative evaluation of facial paralysis using tracking method

Abstract

Facial paralysis is a common clinical condition with the rate from 20 to 25 patients per 100,000 people per year. An objectively quantitative tool to support for medical diagnostics is very necessary and important. This paper proposes a very simple, visual, and highly efficient method that overcomes the drawbacks of other methods to develop this tool. In our research, we use the tracking of interest points to measure the features that are used for training and testing. Experiments show that our method outperforms other techniques testing on a dynamic facial expression database.