PainScan CP Comunicación ASPACE Baleares Sep, 2024

PainScan CP

Fundació Aspace Baleares is seeking collaboration for the launch of PainScan CP, a revolutionary mobile application that will use artificial intelligence to detect pain in people with Cerebral Palsy, especially those who have difficulty communicating it verbally.

What is PainScan CP?

PainScan CP is an innovative mobile application, based on Artificial Intelligence, developed by Fundació Aspace Balears. It is designed to improve the quality of life of people with cerebral palsy. This groundbreaking solution represents a crucial advancement in healthcare, as it can detect whether a person is feeling pain with just a few seconds of video.

What is PainScan CP used for?

PainScan CP will enable professionals, families, and caregivers of people with Cerebral Palsy to:

  1. Improve quality of life: It provides a tool for the early and accurate recognition of pain, allowing for timely treatment and enhancing the overall well-being of people with Cerebral Palsy, which can be extended to other severe neurological conditions.
  2. Reduce caregiver stress: It facilitates pain identification, reducing the uncertainty and stress caregivers face when trying to interpret the needs of their family members or patients.
  3. Support for healthcare professionals: It offers a valuable complement to medical evaluation, helping professionals better plan pain treatment and care.
  4. Improve communication: It facilitates communication between users, caregivers, and healthcare professionals, promoting a collaborative approach to pain management.

How can you collaborate?

To make the PainScan CP app a reality, we need the community’s collaboration:

Participation from specialized centers and families: We ask care centers for people with Cerebral Palsy and families to participate by sending videos showing individuals with Cerebral Palsy during moments of possible pain. These videos are essential for continuing to train and improve the app’s algorithms. The videos should be at least 5 seconds long and clearly show a close-up of the person’s face.

Financial support: We need funding to develop the application and ensure its global distribution. The funds will also allow for maintenance, validation, and continuous improvement of the app. For this reason, Fundació Aspace will launch a crowdfunding campaign next September to make the app a reality.

Media outreach and support: We urge everyone to share this news to increase the project’s visibility. The more people know about PainScan CP, the greater its impact on the lives of those who need it most.

How will PainScan CP work?

When the PainScan CP mobile application is developed, you will be able to use it easily and clearly through the following steps:

  1. User Registration
    Download the App: You will be able to download PainScan CP from Google Play Store or AppStore.
    Create your account: When you open the app, you will need to follow the instructions and provide basic information to use the application.

  2. Pain Registration
    Start the scan: When you believe that the person with Cerebral Palsy is feeling pain, you can open the app and select the option to start the scan.
    Facial frame: To ensure a proper scan analysis, the person’s face should fit within the scan’s facial frame. If the person moves, follow their movements with the mobile device.
    Record a video: The app will generate a short video for later analysis.

  3. Analysis
    Data review: The app will analyze the recorded data and provide the level of pain the person is experiencing.

 

Scientific basis

The idea for PainScan CP was born from direct experience with people with Cerebral Palsy and their caregivers. For years, families and healthcare professionals have faced the challenge of identifying when these individuals are experiencing pain, a problem exacerbated by the communication limitations of the users. Pain signals in people with Cerebral Palsy can be subtle or difficult to interpret, leading to delayed or inadequate diagnoses.

Inspired by these difficulties, the team at Fundació Aspace Baleares decided to explore this issue with healthcare and artificial intelligence specialists from the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), the Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdisBa), and the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil).

These researchers are:

  • Dr. Álvaro Sabater-Gárriz: UIB, ASPACE, Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdISBa)
  • Francesc Xavier Gaya Morey: UIB
  • Dr. José María Buades Rubio: UIB
  • Dr. Cristina Manresa Yee: UIB
  • Dr. Pedro Montoya Jiménez: UIB, Federal University of Bahia, Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdISBa)
  • Dr. Pau Martinez-Bueso: UIB, Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdISBa)
  • Dr. Inmaculada Riquelme: UIB, Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdISBa)

After extensive research with these health and technology experts, Fundació Aspace has set out to develop the first automated facial recognition system to detect pain in Cerebral Palsy: PainScan CP, an app that integrates artificial intelligence technology to analyze short videos of facial expressions, providing accurate pain detection. The initial results of the research supporting this mobile application were recently published in the prestigious journal Digital Health.

CONTACT

alvarosabater@aspaceib.org

Ctra. Vieja de Bunyola Km. 8,2 07141 Marratxí. Mallorca. 

971 796 282

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