LAD: A Hybrid Deep Learning System for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo Disorders Diagnostic

TL;DR

This paper presents LAD, a hybrid deep learning system that accurately diagnoses six types of BPPV disorders using visual analysis of eye movements during specific head tests, achieving over 91% accuracy.

Contribution

The introduction of a novel hybrid deep learning system combining RNN and pupil detection for effective BPPV disorder classification.

Findings

Achieved 91% overall accuracy in classifying BPPV disorders.

High accuracy of 93% for Posterior Canal disorder.

Achieved 95% accuracy for Geotropic and Apogeotropic disorders.

Abstract

Herein, we introduce "Look and Diagnose" (LAD), a hybrid deep learning-based system that aims to support doctors in the medical field in diagnosing effectively the Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) disorder. Given the body postures of the patient in the Dix-Hallpike and lateral head turns test, the visual information of both eyes is captured and fed into LAD for analyzing and classifying into one of six possible disorders the patient might be suffering from. The proposed system consists of two streams: (1) an RNN-based stream that takes raw RGB images of both eyes to extract visual features and optical flow of each eye followed by ternary classification to determine left/right posterior canal (PC) or other; and (2) pupil detector stream that detects the pupil when it is classified as Non-PC and classifies the direction and strength of the beating to categorize the Non-PC types into the remaining four classes: Geotropic BPPV (left and right) and Apogeotropic BPPV (left and right). Experimental results show that with the patient's body postures, the system can accurately classify given BPPV disorder into the six types of disorders with an accuracy of 91% on the validation set. The proposed method can successfully classify disorders with an accuracy of 93% for the Posterior Canal disorder and 95% for the Geotropic and Apogeotropic disorder, paving a potential direction for research with the medical data.