Methods for visual identification of cognitive disorders

1. A method for remote diagnosis of a cognitive disorder in humans, comprising:

receiving, over a network, only one facial image of a patient at a certain age group, wherein the one facial image is retrieved from a data store and captured without requiring any interaction from the patient;

extracting, from the one facial image, at least one facial feature indicative of a cognitive decline;

classifying the one extracted facial feature using a classifier, wherein the classifier maps a plurality of candidate facial features to a plurality of scores indicating a stage of a cognitive decline; and

determining a positive diagnosis of a cognitive decline and a progression of a cognitive diagnosis of the patient, based on the plurality of scores provided by the classifier in response to the one extracted facial feature.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

pre-processing the one facial image to standardize the one facial image.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the cognitive disorder dementia.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the at least one facial feature indicative of cognitive disorder is any one of: eyes, lips, skin, ears, forehead, fascial muscle tone, or cheeks.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein a score associated with each of the plurality of facial features is indicative of a current condition of the dementia.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

generating the classifier, wherein a classifier is generated per type of cognitive disorder.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:

receiving a labeled dataset including set of facial images, wherein each of the facial image is labeled depending on whether it represents a cognitive disorder condition;

extracting, from each facial image in the set of facial images, at least one learning facial feature indicative of a cognitive disorder; and

feeding the extracted facial features into a deep neural network to produce a trained model, wherein the classifier is generated and ready when the trained model includes enough facial features processed by the deep neural network.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the deep neural network implements machine learning techniques including at least: a semi-supervised machine learning algorithm.

9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

feeding back a score of the determined positive diagnosis to the trained model.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the set of facial images do not include a facial image of the patient.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the cognitive disorder further includes illnesses including at least any one of: Parkinson and anxiety.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for a processing circuitry to execute the method of claim 1 .

13. A system for generating a classifier to classify facial images for cognitive disorder in humans, comprising:

a processing circuitry; and

a memory, the memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the system to:

receive, over a network, only one facial image of a patient at a certain age group, wherein the one facial image is retrieved from a data store and captured without requiring any interaction from the patient;

extract, from the one facial image, at least one facial feature indicative of a cognitive decline;

classify the one extracted facial feature using a classifier, wherein the classifier maps a plurality of candidate facial features to a plurality of scores indicating a stage of a cognitive decline; and

determining a positive diagnosis of a cognitive decline and a progression of a cognitive diagnosis of the patient, based on the plurality of scores provided by the classifier in response to the one extracted facial feature.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the system is further configured to:

pre-process the one facial image to standardize the one facial image.

15. The system of claim 13 , wherein the cognitive disorder is dementia.

16. The system of claim 13 , wherein the cognitive disorder is dementia and the at least one facial feature indicative of cognitive disorder is any one of: eyes, lips, skin, ears, forehead, fascial muscle tone, or cheeks.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein a score associated with each of the plurality of facial features is indicative of a current condition of the dementia.

18. The system of claim 17 , wherein the system is further configured to:

generating the classifier, wherein a classifier is generated per type of cognitive disorder.