Abstract
Medical diagnosis involves the expert opinion of trained health care professionals based on causal inference from medical data. While medical data are typically collected using specialized medical-grade sensors, similar data characteristics useful for medical diagnosis are sometimes present in biometric data (e.g., face images, ocular images, and speech signals). In this paper, we explore the biometrics and medical literature to study the following questions. 1) What kind of health cues are embedded in the commonly utilized forms of audio-visual biometric data? 2) How can these health cues be gleaned from the biometric data, and what kind of diseases can it help diagnose? 3) What are some of the implications of using biometric data for medical diagnosis? Read more…