Daniel Boczar, MD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Division of Plastic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
Francisco R. Avila, MD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Division of Plastic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
Plast Surg Nurs. 2021;41(4):232-236. doi: 10.1097/PSN.0000000000000410.
The number of applications for facial recognition technology is increasing due to the improvement in image quality, artificial intelligence, and computer processing power that has occurred during the last decades. Algorithms can be used to convert facial anthropometric landmarks into a computer representation, which can be used to help identify nonverbal information about an individual's health status. This article discusses the potential ways a facial recognition tool can perform a health assessment. Because facial attributes may be considered biometric data, clinicians should be informed about the clinical, ethical, and legal issues associated with its use.
由于过去几十年中图像质量、人工智能和计算机处理能力的提高，人脸识别技术的应用数量不断增加。算法可以用来将面部人类学标志转换为计算机表示，这可以用来帮助识别有关个体健康状况的非言语信息。本文讨论了人脸识别工具进行健康评估的潜在方法。由于面部属性可能被视为生物识别数据，因此临床医生应该了解与其使用相关的临床、伦理和法律问题。
