BOSTON: Researchers have developed a world-first smartphone app that measures pain using facial cues.
For the patients who can’t communicate, carers try to gauge their pain using a checklist of symptoms known as a behavioural pain scale.
Professor Jeff Hughes from Curtin University has developed a smartphone app called the Electronic Pain Assessment Tool, or ePAT.
The ePAT app records a 10-second video of the patient and then analyses their facial cues for signs of pain…