Artificial intelligence for automatic pain assessment: research methods and perspectives

M Cascella, D Schiavo, A Cuomo… - Pain Research and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although proper pain evaluation is mandatory for establishing the appropriate therapy, self‐
reported pain level assessment has several limitations. Data‐driven artificial intelligence (AI) …

Automatic recognition methods supporting pain assessment: A survey

P Werner, D Lopez-Martinez, S Walter… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pain is a complex phenomenon, involving sensory and emotional experience, that is often
poorly understood, especially in infants, anesthetized patients, and others who cannot …

A survey on computer vision for assistive medical diagnosis from faces

J Thevenot, MB López, A Hadid - IEEE journal of biomedical …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic medical diagnosis is an emerging center of interest in computer vision as it
provides unobtrusive objective information on a patient's condition. The face, as a mirror of …

Automatic pain assessment with facial activity descriptors

P Werner, A Al-Hamadi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pain is a primary symptom in medicine, and accurate assessment is needed for proper
treatment. However, today's pain assessment methods are not sufficiently valid and reliable …

[HTML][HTML] Pain assessment tool with electrodermal activity for postoperative patients: method validation study

SAH Aqajari, R Cao, E Kasaeyan Naeini… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2021 - mhealth.jmir.org
Background Accurate, objective pain assessment is required in the health care domain and
clinical settings for appropriate pain management. Automated, objective pain detection from …

Automatic detection of pain from facial expressions: a survey

T Hassan, D Seuß, J Wollenberg… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pain sensation is essential for survival, since it draws attention to physical threat to the body.
Pain assessment is usually done through self-reports. However, self-assessment of pain is …

Automatic pain recognition from video and biomedical signals

P Werner, A Al-Hamadi, R Niese… - 2014 22nd …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
How much does it hurt? Accurate assessment of pain is very important for selecting the right
treatment, however current methods are not sufficiently valid and reliable in many cases …

A review of automated pain assessment in infants: features, classification tasks, and databases

G Zamzmi, R Kasturi, D Goldgof, R Zhi… - IEEE reviews in …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bedside caregivers assess infants' pain at constant intervals by observing specific
behavioral and physiological signs of pain. This standard has two main limitations. The first …

Vision-based patient monitoring: a comprehensive review of algorithms and technologies

S Sathyanarayana, RK Satzoda… - Journal of Ambient …, 2018 - Springer
Vision-based monitoring for assisted living is gaining increasing attention, especially in multi-
modal monitoring systems owing to the several advantages of vision-based sensors. In this …

A spatiotemporal convolutional neural network for automatic pain intensity estimation from facial dynamics

M Tavakolian, A Hadid - International Journal of Computer Vision, 2019 - Springer
Devising computational models for detecting abnormalities reflective of diseases from facial
structures is a novel and emerging field of research in automatic face analysis. In this paper …