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However, developing a clinically usable tool faces several challenges, such as data quality, inherent biases in machine learning algorithms, and explainability of decision-making processes. The development of the eFACE scale and its associated software has improved clinician scoring of facial palsy. Additionally, Emotrics is a semiautomated tool that provides quantitative data of facial landmarks on patient photographs. The ideal artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled system would analyze patient videos in real time, extracting anatomic landmark data to quantify symmetry and movement, and estimate clinical eFACE scores. This would not replace clinician eFACE scoring but would offer a rapid automated estimate of both anatomic data, similar to Emotrics, and clinical severity, similar to the eFACE. 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