TAME Pain: Trustworthy AssessMEnt of Pain from speech and audio for the empowerment of patients
TAME Pain: Trustworthy AssessMEnt of Pain from speech and audio for the empowerment of patients
Precise pain assessment is crucial for medical professionals to provide appropriate treatment. However, not every patient can verbalise the experienced pain for various reasons (e.g., speech disorders or language barriers). In these cases, medical practitioners must provide treatment based on non-verbal signs. The TAME Pain project aims to provide medical professionals with an additional pain assessment tool using audio analysis. We seek to develop an algorithm that functions as an autonomous system and evaluate its trustworthiness. This proof-of-concept study will investigate whether the acoustic signal extracted from healthy individuals subjected to pain can predict pain accurately. We will assess the system’s trustworthiness by surveying medical professionals. By comparing their assessments with and without our algorithm against pain levels reported by the participants, we evaluate the trustworthiness and feasibility of clinical implementation. Our project aims at empowering patients, including non-verbal and second-language speakers. Our work also supports healthcare professionals with an accessible decision support tool, ultimately reducing the risk of potential physical harm and improving patient experience. This paper describes the planned study to collect data for the system that assesses bioacoustic pain markers in the speech signal and outlines our project plan for achieving this.
acoustic biomarkers, non-verbal pain assessment, trustworthy autonomous pain assessment
Association for Computing Machinery
Schneiders, Eike
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11 July 2023
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Schneiders, Eike, Williams, Jennifer, Farahi, Arya, Seabrooke, Tina, Vigneswaran, Ganesh, Bautista, John Robert, Dowthwaite, Liz and Piskopani, Anna-Maria
(2023)
TAME Pain: Trustworthy AssessMEnt of Pain from speech and audio for the empowerment of patients.
In TAS 2023 - Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems.
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Abstract
Precise pain assessment is crucial for medical professionals to provide appropriate treatment. However, not every patient can verbalise the experienced pain for various reasons (e.g., speech disorders or language barriers). In these cases, medical practitioners must provide treatment based on non-verbal signs. The TAME Pain project aims to provide medical professionals with an additional pain assessment tool using audio analysis. We seek to develop an algorithm that functions as an autonomous system and evaluate its trustworthiness. This proof-of-concept study will investigate whether the acoustic signal extracted from healthy individuals subjected to pain can predict pain accurately. We will assess the system’s trustworthiness by surveying medical professionals. By comparing their assessments with and without our algorithm against pain levels reported by the participants, we evaluate the trustworthiness and feasibility of clinical implementation. Our project aims at empowering patients, including non-verbal and second-language speakers. Our work also supports healthcare professionals with an accessible decision support tool, ultimately reducing the risk of potential physical harm and improving patient experience. This paper describes the planned study to collect data for the system that assesses bioacoustic pain markers in the speech signal and outlines our project plan for achieving this.
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Published date: 11 July 2023
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Funding for this research was provided by:
UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (EP/V00784X/1)
University of Texas at Austin (Good Systems)
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This work is supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub (EP/V00784X/1) and by Good Systems, a research grand challenge at the University of Texas at Austin.
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First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems: ACM, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2023-07-11 - 2023-07-12
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acoustic biomarkers, non-verbal pain assessment, trustworthy autonomous pain assessment
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