Journal article

Confident and Trustworthy Model for Fidgety Movement Classification

R Morais, TM Le, T Tran, C Alexander, N Amery, C Morgan, A Spittle, V Le, N Badawi, A Salt, J Valentine, C Elliott, EM Hurrion, PA Dawson, S Venkatesh

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | Published : 2026

Abstract

General movements (GMs) are part of the spontaneous movement repertoire and are present from early fetal life onwards up to age five months. GMs are connected to infants' neurological development and can be qualitatively assessed via the General Movement Assessment (GMA). In particular, between the age of three to five months, typically developing infants produce Fidgety Movements (FM) and their absence provides strong evidence for the presence of cerebral palsy (CP). To improve accessibility to the GMA, automated GMA solutions have been a key research area with proposed models becoming increasingly more accurate and interpretable. However, current models cannot gauge their ability to make d..

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