Facial Paralysis Yanagihara grading scales

Facial paralysis is the loss of facial muscle movement

either in one side or both sides of the face due to the facial

nerve damage. Currently, the subjective assessments are widely

used techniques to determine the measure of degree with which

the patient is affected. However, the subjective assessments are

highly dependant on the expert’s view and a few sets of grading

rules. In this paper, the quantitative assessment to measure the

degree of facial paralysis is proposed. The video database of