Critically ill patients often lack cognitive or communicative functions, making it challenging to assess their pain levels using self-reporting mechanisms. There is an urgent need for an accurate system that can assess pain levels without relying on ...
BACKGROUND: Infants are unable to self-report their pain, which, therefore, often goes underrecognized and undertreated. Adequate assessment of pain, including procedural pain, which has short- and long-term consequences, is critical for its manageme...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Feb 8, 2023
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The automatic assessment of pain is vital in designing optimal pain management interventions focused on reducing suffering and preventing the functional decline of patients. In recent years, there has been a surge in the ado...
Automatic pain intensity assessment from physiological signals has become an appealing approach, but it remains a largely unexplored research topic. Most studies have used machine learning approaches built on carefully designed features based on the ...
Pain is a reliable indicator of health issues; it affects patients' quality of life when not well managed. The current methods in the clinical application undergo biases and errors; moreover, such methods do not facilitate continuous pain monitoring....
With the development of robot technology, robot utilization is expanding in industrial fields and everyday life. To employ robots in various fields wherein humans and robots share the same space, human safety must be guaranteed in the event of a huma...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Dec 23, 2021
Pain assessment in children continues to challenge clinicians and researchers, as subjective experiences of pain require inference through observable behaviors, both involuntary and deliberate. The presented approach supplements the subjective self-r...
Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based quantitative pain measurement is valuable in the field of clinical pain treatment, providing objective pain intensity assessment especially for nonverbal patients who are unable to self-report. At present, a key chall...
Computations of placebo effects are essential in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for separating the specific effects of treatments from unspecific effects associated with the therapeutic intervention. Thus, the identification of placebo responder...
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