The influence of neuroticism and psychological symptoms on the assessment of images in three-dimensional emotion space

Objective: The present study investigated the influence of neuroticism (NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI)) and psychological symptoms (Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)) on pleasure, arousal, and dominance (PAD) ratings of the International Affective Picture System (IAPS)

The influence of neuroticism and psychological symptoms on the assessment of images in three-dimensional emotion space

Objective: The present study investigated the influence of neuroticism (NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI)) and psychological symptoms (Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)) on pleasure, arousal, and dominance (PAD) ratings of the International Affective Picture System (IAPS)

Pain Intensity Recognition Rates via Biopotential Feature Patterns with Support Vector Machines

Background: The clinically used methods of pain diagnosis do not allow for objective and robust measurement, and physicians must rely on the patient’s report on the pain sensation. Verbal scales, visual analog scales (VAS) or numeric rating scales (NRS) count among the most common tools, which are restricted to patients with normal mental abilities. There also exist instruments for pain assessment in people with verbal and / or cognitive impairments and instruments for pain assessment in people who are sedated and automated ventilated. However, all these diagnostic methods either have limited reliability and validity or are very time-consuming. In contrast, biopotentials can be automatically analyzed with machine learning algorithms to provide a surrogate measure of pain intensity. Methods: In this context, we created a database of biopotentials to advance an automated pain recognition system, determine its theoretical testing quality, and optimize its performance. Eighty-five participants were subjected to painful heat stimuli (baseline, pain threshold, two intermediate thresholds, and pain tolerance threshold) under controlled conditions and the signals of electromyography, skin conductance level, and electrocardiography were collected. A total of 159 features were extracted from the mathematical groupings of amplitude, frequency, stationarity, entropy, linearity, variability, and similarity. Results: We achieved classification rates of 90.94% for baseline vs. pain tolerance threshold and 79.29% for baseline vs. pain threshold. The most selected pain features stemmed from the amplitude and similarity group and were derived from facial electromyography. Conclusion: The machine learning measurement of pain in patients could provide valuable information for a clinical team and thus support the treatment assessment

Schmerzerkennung anhand psychophysiologischer Signale mithilfe maschineller Lerner

Eine objektive Schmerzdiagnose sollte in der Lage sein, unabhängig vom Beobachter sowie unabhängig vom leidenden Individuum, Schmerzen valide zu detektieren. Demnach gilt es, repräsentative Merkmale zu finden, die eine Unterscheidung von Schmerz zu Nicht-Schmerz ermöglichen. Vor allem mit dem Einsatz von sog. maschinellen Lernverfahren, sollte eine Erkennung von Schmerz mithilfe von Klassifikationsmethoden mit einer bestimmten Wahrscheinlichkeit möglich sein, wenn hierfür schmerzbeschreibende Parameter bekannt sind. Psychophysiologische Parameter, wie beispielsweise Herzrate, Hautleitfähigkeit oder Muskelaktivität stellen eine vielversprechende Möglichkeit zur Erfassung von Schmerz dar. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde mit der Hilfe von maschinellen Lernern ein aus biopsychologischen Signalen abgeleitetes Merkmalsset erstellt, das Schmerz und Nicht-Schmerz bzw. Schmerzintensitäten objektiv messen und mit befriedigender Qualität unterscheiden kann. Die Erkennungsgenauigkeiten liegen dabei zwischen 73 % - 90 % und lassen ein großes Potential für viele Einsatzgebiete durchblicken. Insbesondere Patientengruppen, die ihren Schmerz nicht nach außen kommunizieren können, würden von solch einer automatischen Schmerzerkennung in klinischen Umgebungen profitieren

Data from: Pain intensity recognition rates via biopotential feature patterns with support vector machines

Background: The clinically used methods of pain diagnosis do not allow for objective and robust measurement, and physicians must rely on the patient’s report on the pain sensation. Verbal scales, visual analog scales (VAS) or numeric rating scales (NRS) count among the most common tools, which are restricted to patients with normal mental abilities. There also exist instruments for pain assessment in people with verbal and / or cognitive impairments and instruments for pain assessment in people who are sedated and automated ventilated. However, all these diagnostic methods either have limited reliability and validity or are very time-consuming. In contrast, biopotentials can be automatically analyzed with machine learning algorithms to provide a surrogate measure of pain intensity. Methods: In this context, we created a database of biopotentials to advance an automated pain recognition system, determine its theoretical testing quality, and optimize its performance. Eighty-five participants were subjected to painful heat stimuli (baseline, pain threshold, two intermediate thresholds, and pain tolerance threshold) under controlled conditions and the signals of electromyography, skin conductance level, and electrocardiography were collected. A total of 159 features were extracted from the mathematical groupings of amplitude, frequency, stationarity, entropy, linearity, variability, and similarity. Results: We achieved classification rates of 90.94% for baseline vs. pain tolerance threshold and 79.29% for baseline vs. pain threshold. The most selected pain features stemmed from the amplitude and similarity group and were derived from facial electromyography. Conclusion: The machine learning measurement of pain in patients could provide valuable information for a clinical team and thus support the treatment assessment

List of extracted biopotential pain features

Reference: Steffen Walter, Philipp Werner, Sascha Gruss, Harald C. Traue, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, et al.: The BioVid Heat Pain Database: Data for the Advancement and Systematic Validation of an Automated Pain Recognition System. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics, 2013. Pain stimulation data: Extracted features of biomedical signals (SCL, ECG, EMG at trapezius, corrugator and zygomaticus muscle); 85 subjects; features extracted of time windows of 5.5 seconds; used to classify pain intensities; 5 classes (pain intensity 0 to pain intensity 4), 20 samples per class per subject

Automatic vs. Human Recognition of Pain Intensity from Facial Expression on the X-ITE Pain Database

Prior work on automated methods demonstrated that it is possible to recognize pain intensity from frontal faces in videos, while there is an assumption that humans are very adept at this task compared to machines. In this paper, we investigate whether such an assumption is correct by comparing the results achieved by two human observers with the results achieved by a Random Forest classifier (RFc) baseline model (called RFc-BL) and by three proposed automated models. The first proposed model is a Random Forest classifying descriptors of Action Unit (AU) time series; the second is a modified MobileNetV2 CNN classifying face images that combine three points in time; and the third is a custom deep network combining two CNN branches using the same input as for MobileNetV2 plus knowledge of the RFc. We conduct experiments with X-ITE phasic pain database, which comprises videotaped responses to heat and electrical pain stimuli, each of three intensities. Distinguishing these six stimulation types plus no stimulation was the main 7-class classification task for the human observers and automated approaches. Further, we conducted reduced 5-class and 3-class classification experiments, applied Multi-task learning, and a newly suggested sample weighting method. Experimental results show that the pain assessments of the human observers are significantly better than guessing and perform better than the automatic baseline approach (RFc-BL) by about 1%; however, the human performance is quite poor due to the challenge that pain that is ethically allowed to be induced in experimental studies often does not show up in facial reaction. We discovered that downweighting those samples during training improves the performance for all samples. The proposed RFc and two-CNNs models (using the proposed sample weighting) significantly outperformed the human observer by about 6% and 7%, respectively

Automatic Recognition Methods Supporting Pain Assessment: A Survey

IEEE Automated tools for pain assessment have great promise but have not yet become widely used in clinical practice. In this survey paper, we review the literature that proposes and evaluates automatic pain recognition approaches, and discuss challenges and promising directions for advancing this field. Prior to that, we give an overview on pain mechanisms and responses, discuss common clinically used pain assessment tools, and address shared datasets and the challenge of validation in the context of pain recognition

Evaluation of an Objective Measurement Tool for Stress Level Reduction by Individually Chosen Music During Colonoscopy—Results From the Study “ColoRelaxTone”

Background and Aims: Colonoscopy as standard procedure in endoscopy is often perceived as uncomfortable for patients. Patient's anxiety is therefore a significant issue, which often lead to avoidance of participation of relevant examinations as CRC-screening. Non-pharmacological anxiety management interventions such as music might contribute to relaxation in the phase prior and during endoscopy. Although music's anxiolytic effects have been reported previously, no objective measurement of stress level reduction has been reported yet. Focus of this study was to evaluate the objective measurement of the state of relaxation in patients undergoing colonoscopy. Methods: Prospective study (n = 196) performed at one endoscopic high-volume center. Standard colonoscopy was performed in control group. Interventional group received additionally self-chosen music over earphones. Facial Electromyography (fEMG) activity was obtained. Clinician Satisfaction with Sedation Instrument (CSSI) and Patients Satisfaction with Sedation Instrument (PSSI) was answered by colonoscopists and patients, respectively. Overall satisfaction with music accompanied colonoscopy was obtained if applicable. Results: Mean difference measured by fEMG via musculus zygomaticus major indicated a significantly lower stress level in the music group [7.700(±5.560) μV vs. 4.820(±3.330) μV; p = 0.001]. Clinician satisfaction was significantly higher with patients listening to music [82.69(±15.04) vs. 87.3(±15.02) pts.; p = 0.001]. Patient's satisfaction was higher but did not differ significantly. Conclusions: We conclude that self-chosen music contributes objectively to a reduced stress level for patients and therefore subjectively perceived satisfaction for endoscopists. Therefore, music should be considered as a non-pharmacological treatment method of distress reduction especially in the beginning of endoscopic procedures