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    Area of Science:

    • Computer Science
    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Artificial Intelligence

    Background:

    • Accurate pain assessment is crucial for patient diagnosis and treatment.
    • Automated pain detection from facial expressions aids patients with communication disabilities.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and evaluate video vision transformers (ViViT) for automated pain recognition.
    • To capture spatio-temporal facial information for binary pain classification.

    Main Methods:

    • Trained and evaluated ViViT models on two acute pain datasets: AI4PAIN Challenge and BioVid Pain.
    • Compared ViViT performance against baseline models: ResNet50 and ResNet50+3DCNN.

    Main Results:

    • ViViT achieved 66.96% accuracy on the AI4PAIN dataset.
    • ViViT achieved 79.95% accuracy on the BioVid dataset, outperforming baseline models.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed ViViT model demonstrates superior performance in automated pain detection from facial expressions.
    • This technology offers valuable insights for objective pain estimation in clinical settings.