In-Motion
In-Motion
Some newborns require intensive medical care after birth. These children are referred to follow-up programmes after discharge from hospital as a few of them may develop cerebral palsy. Despite thorough examinations by multiple health experts, a diagnosis for cerebral palsy is often not established until one to two years of age. In order to start early treatment, optimising function and preventing complications, early diagnosis is essential. We have conducted several clinical studies where we found that expert observation of infant spontaneous movements in video recordings, is an excellent method to identify children with cerebral palsy early in infancy. But expert observation requires extensive training, is challenging to maintain over time in small, local teams and is not available for everyone. To offer examinations to everyone who needs it, our research team have used artificial intelligence to automatically analyse video images of infants’ movements to assess the risk of developing cerebral palsy. The computer program analyses the movement patterns in the infant and compares this to the normal and abnormal patterns in its own databank.
In-Motion is a group of scientists at St. Olav’s hospital and NTNU in Trondheim, Norway. The group comprises of child physiotherapists, paediatricians, neonatologists, movement scientists and computer engineers in several research and software development projects:
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