To fill this critical gap in neonatal care, the investigators developed and validated NeoPose, a low-cost, non-invasive, computer vision digital health tool to continuously monitor infants using real time video streams. NeoPose uses Pose Artificial Intelligence (AI) for an explainable approach to measure, quantify, and analyze infant movement. From the vectorized movement, investigators can accurately confirm the presence of encephalopathy and quantify the degree of sedation. The explainable AI platform enables continuous neuromonitoring with AI-driven alerts, suspicious event replay, movement comparisons, and training on a vast dataset of normal and abnormal infant movements far beyond what any provider could witness.
The Neonatal Neurological Observation with Video AI (NeoNOVA) study is a multi-site, prospective, single-arm, pragmatic, silent observational study to evaluate the performance of NeoPose and AI-derived insights in real world settings. NeoNOVA will deploy a bedside video monitoring system (ArtemisAI Platform) that continuously, passively video records the subject from enrollment to discharge. The study will prospectively validate the AI system's tracking accuracy against ground-truth human-labeled video frames (primary objective; outcome median position error in pixels), will evaluate the association between a video-derived movement index and standardized bedside assessments of encephalopathy, pain, and sedation (secondary objective; outcomes N-PASS and modified Sarnat scales), and will support hypothesis-generating research on novel video prediction algorithms for outcomes like sepsis and need for respiratory support (tertiary objective). The study operates in "silent mode," where AI outputs are not shown to the patient's clinical team. Findings are intended to support a structured clinical evidence generation plan for a Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) designed for continuous, non-contact neurological monitoring in the NICU.
