A survey of mild cognitive impairment diagnosis methods

• Main Authors: Mandave, Deepa, Patil, Lalit
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Dementia; Diagnosis; Emotion recognition; Medical imaging; Neurological diseases; Older people
• ISSN: 0094-243X; 1551-7616
• DOI: 10.1063/5.0175623

India is one of the nations which have largest older adults with dementia. This shows increasing burden of dementia in India. Dementia represents a neurodegenerative disease described as deterioration of distinct cognitive functions. It causes large number of demises and large price for diagnosis, patient care, and treatments. Although dementia is not curable, early detection assists in acquiring required help, proper treatment, and care in intellectual, societal, and physical tasks. Its early identification and recognition has huge significance. But, it’s tough in order to identify cognitive decline into the primary phase alongwith large accuracy, less costs etc. Some famous techniques including neuroimaging techniques and cognitive assessments have their own limitations. Impaired facial expression is a common symptom in neurological disorder. The face expressions of persons with cognitive decline express anomalous ridged actions in comparison with healthy controls. Automation in analysis of facial expression has the capability to be employed for identification of cognitive loss in elderly. The paper outlines general MCI screening and detection methods pointing the current methods that are depend on smart environments, emotions recognition, and behavior analysis, focusing to give proven and non-invasive method at home or clinic.