NewbornTimeLine: Automated Video-Based Timelines for Neonatal Resuscitation in a Hospital Pilot Study.

StudyIEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics· Aug 2026

NewbornTimeLine: Automated Video-Based Timelines for Neonatal Resuscitation in a Hospital Pilot Study.

Ovind Meinich-Bache, Jorge Garcia-Torres, Saul Fuster … Kjersti Engan

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AI video system detected time of birth within 10 seconds with 93.80% accuracy.

NewbornTimeLine: Automated Video-Based Timelines for Neonatal Resuscitation in a Hospital Pilot Study.

Ovind Meinich-Bache … Kjersti Engan

IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics · Aug 2026

Background

Accurate documentation of neonatal resuscitation events is critical for quality improvement and evidence-based research, yet current manual methods are labor-intensive and lack temporal precision.

Purpose

This paper presents NewbornTimeLine, an AI-based system that automatically generates detailed timelines of birth and resuscitation activities from thermal and visible light video recordings.

Methods

NewbornTimeLine was deployed as a single-hospital pilot, demonstrating that automated timeline generation for neonatal resuscitation is feasible in a single-centre setting.

93.80%

Results

93.80%

AI matched true birth time within seconds almost every time

More results

For Neonatal Resuscitation Algorithm activity recognition, the ROI-centered MoViNet approach achieved weighted-average and macro-averaged F1- scores of 0.97 and 0.77, respectively, for key resuscitation activities, including ventilation, stimulation, and suction.

More results

The web-based dashboard enables dataset exploration, timeline visualization, and comparison between automated and manual documentation.

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Conclusion

The system may further support retrospective analysis, clinical debriefing, and quality improvement research.

NewbornTimeLine: Automated Video-Based Timelines for Neonatal Resuscitation in a Hospital Pilot Study.

NewbornTimeLine: Automated Video-Based Timelines for Neonatal Resuscitation in a Hospital Pilot Study.

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