Automatic Facial Recognition of Williams-Beuren Syndrome Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

Frontiers in Pediatrics
Hui LiuShu-Shui Wang

Abstract

Background: Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is a rare genetic syndrome with a characteristic "elfin" facial gestalt. The "elfin" facial characteristics include a broad forehead, periorbital puffiness, flat nasal bridge, short upturned nose, wide mouth, thick lips, and pointed chin. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully applied to facial recognition for diagnosing genetic syndromes. However, there is little research on WBS facial recognition using deep CNNs. Objective: The purpose of this study was to construct an automatic facial recognition model for WBS diagnosis based on deep CNNs. Methods: The study enrolled 104 WBS children, 91 cases with other genetic syndromes, and 145 healthy children. The photo dataset used only one frontal facial photo from each participant. Five face recognition frameworks for WBS were constructed by adopting the VGG-16, VGG-19, ResNet-18, ResNet-34, and MobileNet-V2 architectures, respectively. ImageNet transfer learning was used to avoid over-fitting. The classification performance of the facial recognition models was assessed by five-fold cross validation, and comparison with human experts was performed. Results: The five face recognition frameworks for WBS were...Continue Reading

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