Competitive Advantages:
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.
A computer-based system and method for generating a current pain assessment of a neonate using facial expressions along with crying sounds, body movement, and vital signs changes and for using the current pain objective assessment to predict future pain objective assessment and assign a future pain probability score by incorporation spatiotemporal data into the multimodal assessment.USF inventors have invented a novel system using facial expressions to continuously monitor an infant’s pain. The system also includes multimodal subsystems for assessing the infant’s 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.
