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ROMA. The pain in children is often difficult to quantify, but in aid of doctors can use the algorithm that allows the computer to recognize the faces appropriately modified. He showed a study of San Diego School of Medicine published in the journal Pediatrics, that the program is able to give an estimate equal to that made by the parents, and better than that of nurses.
The study based on 50 children between 5 and 18 who had undergone appendectomy at a hospital in San Diego. The researchers filmed the participants in three different visits after surgery, 24 and 48 hours and two weeks, raising the esteem of the pain experienced by patients and parents and a nurse . The software, which is based on 46 possible movements of the face, has performed an estimate of the pain felt on a scale of 1 to 10, which then was compared with the other. “Most parents are more accurate than doctors to estimate the pain – the authors explain – but are not always present. The program has proved as good as the parents in giving a ‘vote’ to the pain, and better than the medical staff. “
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