Application of human face recognition technology in genetic syndrome diagnosis / 中华实用儿科临床杂志

Genetic syndromes often involve craniofacial malformations,and certain syndromes are associated with a specific facial pattern such as Down syndrome.With the development of artificial intelligence in the medical field,face recognition technology has been successfully applied in the diagnosis of genetic syndrome,such as Down syndrome,Cornelia de Lange syndrome,22q11.2 deletion syndrome and Noonan syndrome.Some reports suggested that the detection rates of face recognition technology are higher than clinical specialists.In the future,face recognition technology is expected to be applied in the screening of and genetic syndromes,to help the diagnosis and to be applied in scientific research.