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Automated Video-Based Approach for the Diagnosis of Tourette Syndrome

Ronja Schappert; Julius Verrel; Nele Brügge; Frédéric Li; Theresa Paulus; Leonie Becker; Tobias Bäumer; Christian Beste; Veit Roessner; Sebastian Fudickar; Alexander Münchau
In: Movement Disorders - Clinical Practice, Vol. 11, No. 9, Pages 1136-1140, Wiley, 7/2024.

Abstract

Background The occurrence of tics is the main basis for the diagnosis of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS). Video-based tic assessments are time consuming. Objective The aim was to assess the potential of automated video-based tic detection for discriminating between videos of adults with GTS and healthy control (HC) participants. Methods The quantity and temporal structure of automatically detected tics/extra movements in videos from adults with GTS (107 videos from 42 participants) and matched HCs were used to classify videos using cross-validated logistic regression. Results Videos were classified with high accuracy both from the quantity of tics (balanced accuracy of 87.9%) and the number of tic clusters (90.2%). Logistic regression prediction probability provides a graded measure of diagnostic confidence. Expert review of about 25% of lower-confidence predictions could ensure an overall classification accuracy above 95%. Conclusions Automated video-based methods have a great potential to support quantitative assessment and clinical decision-making in tic disorders.

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