Researchers Develop Software to Read facial expressions sick children
California - researchers from UC San Diego School of Medicine reveal it successfully developed a software to read the expression the children sick. This device is able to know the level of predictable pain he suffered, and give pain relief drug with an appropriate measure.
The technology used to monitor pain and give the right pain reliever medication, disclosed may be used for children from 5 to 17 years. The assessment can measure pain and will provide an assessment to the score system from zero to 10.
"There are limited population In paediatrics, where children who could answer the question in a different way, so keep reading facial expressions in order to overcome such a difficult thing. A two-year development of cognitive and conceptual, is finally made, "explains Jeannie Huang, one of a team of developers from the UC San Diego School of Medichine.
Researchers revealed that the software is rated the 46 different movements in the face to see how a patient's pain level. The assessment results will be compared with the information collected from the child and the reporting, interviewing parents, as well as nurses in hospitals as a follow-up to estimate the accuracy of the data.
"It shows the Device levels both in assessing the condition of the sick," explains Huang. as quoted from pages Mirror on Tuesday (2/6/2015).
"Overall, these technologies do the equivalent of parental attention and better than a nurse. It shows a strong correlation with the assessment of pain and self-reported by patients, "he added.
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