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Linking Cancer Pain Features and Biosignals for Automatic Pain Assessment.

Marco Cascella¹, Francesco Perri², Alessandro Ottaiano³

¹Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, Italy.

|February 27, 2026

Summary

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Electrodermal activity (EDA) biosignals show potential in differentiating cancer pain intensity and type, unlike heart rate variability (HRV). EDA may offer complementary insights into pain-related autonomic changes in oncology patients.

Keywords:

automatic pain assessment biosignals breakthrough cancer pain cancer pain electrodermal activity heart rate variability

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Area of Science:

Oncology
Pain Management
Biomedical Engineering

Background:

Cancer pain is a prevalent and debilitating symptom.
Subjective pain assessment is limited by cognitive impairment and pain heterogeneity.
Objective biosignal discrimination of cancer pain remains under-explored.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the potential of electrodermal activity (EDA) and electrocardiogram (ECG) biosignals to discriminate cancer pain intensity and phenotypes.
To explore objective physiological markers for cancer pain assessment.

Main Methods:

Recorded EDA and ECG signals from 61 cancer patients.
Processed EDA for skin conductance responses (SCRs) using CDA and TTP methods.
Extracted heart rate variability (HRV) features and performed Kruskal-Wallis tests.

Main Results:

Selected EDA parameters, like MaxCDA, significantly differed across pain intensity levels (p=0.037).
EDA parameters (SCR count and amplitude) were lower in mixed pain compared to nociceptive/neuropathic pain (p=0.015, p=0.040).
No significant associations were found for HRV parameters with pain intensity or type.

Conclusions:

EDA parameters show promise in reflecting cancer pain intensity and type.
HRV measures did not significantly discriminate pain under current conditions.
EDA may provide complementary objective data for pain assessment in oncology, requiring integration with clinical context.