Neonatal Asphyxia

This study presents an end-to-end framework for automated neonatal asphyxia detection using time series video analysis and makes three key contributions. First, the proposed framework integrates YOLOv8-based instance segmentation with advanced feature extraction across multiple color spaces and texture analysis to detect neonatal asphyxia through the multi-modal analysis of skin features in video streams. Second, we introduce a new quality-aware temporal analysis framework that includes adaptive quality assessment for evaluating frames in real time, multi-stage feature stability tracking across temporal windows, hysteresis-based decision logic for ensuring temporal consistency, and LightGBM classification with comprehensive feature engineering to assess severity. Third, we provide a curated time series video dataset of 10,876 frames from 37 neonates, of which some were healthy and some had asphyxia of varying severity.