Crowdsourced privacy-preserved feature tagging of short home videos for machine learning ASD detection

Abstract Standard medical diagnosis of mental health conditions requires licensed experts who are increasingly outnumbered by those at risk, limiting reach. We test the hypothesis that a trustworthy crowd of non-experts can efficiently annotate behavioral features needed for accurate machine learnin...

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Autores principales: Peter Washington, Qandeel Tariq, Emilie Leblanc, Brianna Chrisman, Kaitlyn Dunlap, Aaron Kline, Haik Kalantarian, Yordan Penev, Kelley Paskov, Catalin Voss, Nathaniel Stockham, Maya Varma, Arman Husic, Jack Kent, Nick Haber, Terry Winograd, Dennis P. Wall
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/7c1e977803b04ec7833a0f2e6600ab08
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Sumario:Abstract Standard medical diagnosis of mental health conditions requires licensed experts who are increasingly outnumbered by those at risk, limiting reach. We test the hypothesis that a trustworthy crowd of non-experts can efficiently annotate behavioral features needed for accurate machine learning detection of the common childhood developmental disorder Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) for children under 8 years old. We implement a novel process for identifying and certifying a trustworthy distributed workforce for video feature extraction, selecting a workforce of 102 workers from a pool of 1,107. Two previously validated ASD logistic regression classifiers, evaluated against parent-reported diagnoses, were used to assess the accuracy of the trusted crowd’s ratings of unstructured home videos. A representative balanced sample (N = 50 videos) of videos were evaluated with and without face box and pitch shift privacy alterations, with AUROC and AUPRC scores > 0.98. With both privacy-preserving modifications, sensitivity is preserved (96.0%) while maintaining specificity (80.0%) and accuracy (88.0%) at levels comparable to prior classification methods without alterations. We find that machine learning classification from features extracted by a certified nonexpert crowd achieves high performance for ASD detection from natural home videos of the child at risk and maintains high sensitivity when privacy-preserving mechanisms are applied. These results suggest that privacy-safeguarded crowdsourced analysis of short home videos can help enable rapid and mobile machine-learning detection of developmental delays in children.