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Problems of video-based pain detection in patients with dementia: a road map to an interdisciplinary solution

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Geriatrics, January 2017
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Title
Problems of video-based pain detection in patients with dementia: a road map to an interdisciplinary solution
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BMC Geriatrics, January 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12877-017-0427-2
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Miriam Kunz, Dominik Seuss, Teena Hassan, Jens U. Garbas, Michael Siebers, Ute Schmid, Michael Schöberl, Stefan Lautenbacher

Abstract

Given the unreliable self-report in patients with dementia, pain assessment should also rely on the observation of pain behaviors, such as facial expressions. Ideal observers should be well trained and should observe the patient continuously in order to pick up any pain-indicative behavior; which are requisitions beyond realistic possibilities of pain care. Therefore, the need for video-based pain detection systems has been repeatedly voiced. Such systems would allow for constant monitoring of pain behaviors and thereby allow for a timely adjustment of pain management in these fragile patients, who are often undertreated for pain. In this road map paper we describe an interdisciplinary approach to develop such a video-based pain detection system. The development starts with the selection of appropriate video material of people in pain as well as the development of technical methods to capture their faces. Furthermore, single facial motions are automatically extracted according to an international coding system. Computer algorithms are trained to detect the combination and timing of those motions, which are pain-indicative. We hope to encourage colleagues to join forces and to inform end-users about an imminent solution of a pressing pain-care problem. For the near future, implementation of such systems can be foreseen to monitor immobile patients in intensive and postoperative care situations.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 79 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 14 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 16%
Researcher 8 10%
Student > Bachelor 7 9%
Student > Postgraduate 5 6%
Other 11 14%
Unknown 21 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 12 15%
Computer Science 11 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 8%
Engineering 4 5%
Other 11 14%
Unknown 27 34%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 June 2017.
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#3,219,938
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