Software development to identify facial expression of pain in newborn infants

• Grant number: 12/50157-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: August 01, 2012
• End date: July 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine - Maternal and Child Health
• Principal Investigator: Ruth Guinsburg
• Grantee: Ruth Guinsburg
• Host Institution: Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Introduction: Although the last years have seen a growing interest in studying me best way of evaluate neonatal pain and stress, it is necessary to develop a better tool to measure or evaluate pain in this age group. Objective: Develop software to identify the newborn infants facial expression of pain by image recognition, to be used in real time, in the intensive care units to help health professionals to monitor its presence and the need of intervention. Method: First a data base of facial images of 30 newborn with gestational age between 28 and 34 weeks will be created, using webcam photographs taken during me blood collection by puncturing the hand's dorsum before, during and after the procedure, with these photos being classified as neutral, pain and distress by 5 neonatologists, blind relative to me moment they were taken. The software will be created in a Windows application development environment oriented to objects in the Delphi's platform. The development of the software will include me import of continuous filming of me newborn, mapping certain facial points from time to time, identifying and e discriminating the facial structures of a 2D image with the newborn's "facial signature". The main points of the image will be standardized while preparing the software: eyes, eyebrows, nose and lips, mapping the newborn's face's geometry and proportions. To allow the software to differentiate the images of pain from those of absence of pain, the comparison between the real time face geometry and that of the image data bank will be programmed, with me analysis of me 8 parameters that determine the presence of pain in the newborn according to the Neonatal Facial Coding System. After a period of taping, a report will be generated showing how many times the patient presented facial features of pain during this interval. (AU)

Scientific publications

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SILVA, GISELLE VALERIO TEIXEIRA DA; BARROS, MARINA CARVALHO DE MORAES; SOARES, JULIANA DO CARMO AZEVEDO; CARLINI, LUCAS PEREIRA; HEIDERICH, TATIANY MARCONDES; ORSI, RAFAEL NOBRE; BALDA, RITA DE CASSIA XAVIER; THOMAZ, CARLOS EDUARDO; GUINSBURG, RUTH. What Facial Features Does the Pediatrician Look to Decide That a Newborn Is Feeling Pain?. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PERINATOLOGY, JUN 2021. (12/50157-0, 18/13076-9)

TATIANY MARCONDES HEIDERICH; MARINA CARVALHO DE MORAES BARROS; RUTH GUINSBURG. Inter-observer agreement in the identification of pain faces in full-term and late preterm newborns: cross-sectional study. BrJP, n. ahead, p. -, 2020. (12/50157-0)

DE MORAES BARROS, MARINA CARVALHO; THOMAZ, CARLOS EDUARDO; TEIXEIRA DA SILVA, GISELLE VALERIO; AZEVEDO SOARES, JULIANA DO CARMO; CARLINI, LUCAS PEREIRA; HEIDERICH, TATIANY MARCONDES; ORSI, RAFAEL NOBRE; XAVIER BALDA, RITA DE CASSIA; SANTOS ORONA SILVA, PEDRO AUGUSTO; SANUDO, ADRIANA; et al. Identification of pain in neonates: the adults' visual perception of neonatal facial features. Journal of Perinatology, v. 41, n. 9, JUL 2021. (18/13076-9, 12/50157-0)

SILVA, GISELLE VALERIO TEIXEIRA DA; BARROS, MARINA CARVALHO DE MORAES; SOARES, JULIANA DO CARMO AZEVEDO; CARLINI, LUCAS PEREIRA; HEIDERICH, TATIANY MARCONDES; ORSI, RAFAEL NOBRE; BALDA, RITA DE CASSIA XAVIER; THOMAZ, CARLOS EDUARDO; GUINSBURG, RUTH. What Facial Features Does the Pediatrician Look to Decide That a Newborn Is Feeling Pain?. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PERINATOLOGY, v. N/A, p. 7-pg., 2021-06-30. (18/13076-9, 12/50157-0)

HEIDERICH, TATIANY MARCONDES; FIGUEIREDO STOCHERO LESLIE, ANA TERESA; GUINSBURG, RUTH. Neonatal procedural pain can be assessed by computer software that has good sensitivity and specificity to detect facial movements. ACTA PAEDIATRICA, v. 104, n. 2, p. E63-E69, FEB 2015. (12/50157-0)

TATIANY MARCONDES HEIDERICH; MARINA CARVALHO DE MORAES BARROS; RUTH GUINSBURG. Concordância interavaliadores na identificação de faces de dor de recém-nascidos a termo e pré-termo tardio: estudo transversal. BrJP, v. 3, n. 4, p. 348-353, 2020-10-02. (12/50157-0)

AZEVEDO SOARES, JULIANA DO CARMO; DE MORAES BARROS, MARINA CARVALHO; TEIXEIRA DA SILVA, GISELLE VALERIO; CARLINI, LUCAS PEREIRA; HEIDERICH, TATIANY MARCONDES; ORSI, RAFAEL NOBRE; XAVIER BALDA, RITA DE CASSIA; SANTOS ORONA SILVA, PEDRO AUGUSTO; THOMAZ, CARLOS EDUARDO; GUINSBURG, RUTH. Looking at neonatal facial features of pain: do health and non-health professionals differ?. Jornal de Pediatria, v. 98, n. 4, p. 7-pg., 2022-06-30. (12/50157-0, 18/13076-9)