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 …

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 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 …

Multi-task neural networks for personalized pain recognition from physiological signals

D Lopez-Martinez, R Picard - 2017 Seventh International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pain is a complex and subjective experience that poses a number of measurement
challenges. While self-report by the patient is viewed as the gold standard of pain …

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 …

Acute pain intensity monitoring with the classification of multiple physiological parameters

M Jiang, R Mieronkoski, E Syrjälä, A Anzanpour… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - Springer
Current acute pain intensity assessment tools are mainly based on self-reporting by patients,
which is impractical for non-communicative, sedated or critically ill patients. In previous …

Personalized and adaptive neural networks for pain detection from multi-modal physiological features

M Jiang, R Rosio, S Salanterä, AM Rahmani… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Pain assessment is essential for pain diagnosis and treatment. Automating the assessment
process from pain behaviors could be an alternative to self-report; however, inter-subject …

Using AI to detect pain through facial expressions: a review

GD De Sario, CR Haider, KC Maita, RA Torres-Guzman… - Bioengineering, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pain assessment is a complex task largely dependent on the patient's self-report. Artificial
intelligence (AI) has emerged as a promising tool for automating and objectifying pain …

Adaptive confidence learning for the personalization of pain intensity estimation systems

M Kächele, M Amirian, P Thiam, P Werner, S Walter… - Evolving Systems, 2017 - Springer
In this work, a method is presented for the continuous estimation of pain intensity based on
fusion of bio-physiological and video features. Furthermore, a method is proposed for the …

Multi-modal signals for analyzing pain responses to thermal and electrical stimuli

S Gruss, M Geiger, P Werner, O Wilhelm… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2019 - jove.com
The assessment of pain relies mostly on methods that require a person to communicate.
However, for people with cognitive and verbal impairments, existing methods are not …