Abstract Background and Objective: The automatic assessment of pain is vital in designing
optimal pain management interventions focused on reducing suffering and preventing the …

Background The continuous monitoring and recording of patients' pain status is a major
problem in current research on postoperative pain management. In the large number of …

Pain is often characterized as a fundamentally subjective phenomenon; however, all pain
assessment reduces the experience to observables, with strengths and limitations. Most …

Pain is an unpleasant feeling that can reflect a patient's health situation. Since measuring
pain is subjective, time-consuming, and needs continuous monitoring, automated pain …

Abstract Background and Objectives Sustainable implementation of patient-oriented
technologies in health care settings is challenging. Preimplementation studies guided by the …

Chronic pain is highly prevalent. Individuals with cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer
disease are a susceptible population in which pain is frequently difficult to diagnosis. It is still …

Background Discomfort and distressing symptoms are common at the end of life, while
people in this stage are often no longer able to express themselves. Technologies may aid …

Cancer patients experience high rates of chronic pain throughout the treatment process.
Assessing pain for this patient population is a vital component of psychological and …

Regular use of standardized observational tools to assess nonverbal pain behaviors results
in improved pain care for older adults with severe dementia. While frequent monitoring of …

The papers in this special section focus on camera-based monitoring for pervasive
healthcare informatics. Measuring physiological signals from the human face and body …