Pain Assessment in Infants: Towards Spotting Pain Expression Based on Infants' Facial Strain
- Technology Benefits
- Provide more consistent and objective pain assessment, Reduce the clinical assessment and costs of continuous monitoring of infants, Can be used as a home monitoring tool or in developing countries where there is a lack of medical workers/supplies
- Detailed Technology Description
- USF inventors have invented a novel system using facial expressions to continuously monitor an infantΓÇÖs pain. The system also includes multimodal subsystems for assessing the infantΓÇÖs pain intensity using facial expression, vital sign monitoring, body, and audio analysis. Individual scores from the above units is integrated to generate a total pain score that indicates pain intensity to potentially alert healthcare professionals.
- *Abstract
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Researchers at the University of South Florida have developed a method for measuring the pain intensity of an infant.
- Country/Region
- USA
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