Title
Chronic Pain Estimation Through Deep Facial Descriptors Analysis
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana
Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
Publisher(s)
Springer
Abstract
Worldwide, chronic pain has established as one of the foremost medical issues due to its 35% of comorbidity with depression and many other psychological problems. Traditionally, self-report (VAS scale) or physicist inspection (OPI scale) perform the pain assessment; nonetheless, both methods do not usually coincide [14]. Regarding self-assessment, several patients are not able to complete it objectively, like young children or patients with limited expression abilities. The lack of objectivity in the metrics draws the main problem of the clinical analysis of pain. In response, various efforts have tried concerning the inclusion of objective metrics, among which stand out the Prkachin and Solomon Pain Intensity (PSPI) metric defined by face appearance [5]. This work presents an in-depth learning approach to pain recognition considering deep facial representations and sequence analysis. Contrasting current state-of-the-art deep learning techniques, we correct rigid deformations caught since registration. A preprocessing stage is applied, which includes facial frontalization to untangle facial representations from non-affine transformations, perspective deformations, and outside noises passed since registration. After dealing with unbalanced data, we fine-tune a CNN from a pre-trained model to extract facial features, and then a multilayer RNN exploits temporal relation between video frames. As a result, we overcome state-of-the-art in terms of average accuracy at frames level (80.44%) and sequence level (84.54%) in the UNBC-McMaster Shoulder Pain Expression Archive Database.
Start page
173
End page
185
Volume
1070 CCIS
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la información Ciencias de la computación Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85084840351
Source
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Resource of which it is part
Communications in Computer and Information Science
ISSN of the container
18650929
ISBN of the container
9783030461393
Conference
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Sponsor(s)
CNN-RNN hybrid architecture · Pain recognition · Deep facial representations The present work was supported by grant 234-2015-FONDECYT (Master Program) from Cienciactiva of the National Council for Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (CONCYTEC-PERU) and the Vicerrectorate for Research of Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (VRI - UNI).
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