Simulating dynamic facial expressions of pain from visuo-haptic interactions with a robotic patient.

ABSTRACT: Medical training simulators can provide a safe and controlled environment for medical students to practice their physical examination skills. An important source of information for physicians is the visual feedback of involuntary pain facial expressions in response to physical palpation on an affected area of a patient. However, most existing robotic medical training simulators that can capture physical examination behaviours in real-time cannot display facial expressions and comprise a limited range of patient identities in terms of ethnicity and gender. Together, these limitations restrict the utility of medical training simulators because they do not provide medical students with a representative sample of pain facial expressions and face identities, which could result in biased practic

SUBMITTER: Tan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8913843 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature