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Neurodevelopmental assessment is aimed to determine the quality of motor patterns in newborns and infants early. Prechtl’s general movement assessment method is considered the most effective in identifying infants’ motor activity quality in the first 5 months of life. Assessment, according to Prechtl, is not easy as it requires very good knowledge and experience from diagnosticians. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the agreement on the assessment of normal writhing movements as described by Prechtl in infants on days 2 and 3 of life by five experts. The assessments were made using 5 recordings of infant activity randomly selected from 36 videos. In the author’s opinion, the differences observed between experts in the indicated sections of WMs were mainly due to discrepancies in indicating the beginning and end of the movement. The obtained results show the necessity of considering the observations of many experts in ground truth data for developing and evaluating the computer-aided neurodevelopmental diagnosis of infants.
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Latos, D. et al. (2022). Analysis of Expert Agreement on Determining the Duration of Writhing Movements in Infants to Develop an Algorithm in OSESEC. In: Pietka, E., Badura, P., Kawa, J., Wieclawek, W. (eds) Information Technology in Biomedicine. ITIB 2022. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1429. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09135-3_27
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