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Vocal pain expression augmentation for a robopatient

Abdominal palpation is one of the basic but important physical examination methods used by physicians. Visual, auditory, and haptic feedback from the patients are known to be the main sources of feedback they use in the diagnosis. However, learning to interpret this feedback and making accurate diag...

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Autores principales: Protpagorn, Namnueng, Lalitharatne, Thilina Dulantha, Costi, Leone, Iida, Fumiya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10524268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37771605
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2023.1122914
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author Protpagorn, Namnueng
Lalitharatne, Thilina Dulantha
Costi, Leone
Iida, Fumiya
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description Abdominal palpation is one of the basic but important physical examination methods used by physicians. Visual, auditory, and haptic feedback from the patients are known to be the main sources of feedback they use in the diagnosis. However, learning to interpret this feedback and making accurate diagnosis require several years of training. Many abdominal palpation training simulators have been proposed to date, but very limited attempts have been reported in integrating vocal pain expressions into physical abdominal palpation simulators. Here, we present a vocal pain expression augmentation for a robopatient. The proposed robopatient is capable of providing real-time facial and vocal pain expressions based on the exerted palpation force and position on the abdominal phantom of the robopatient. A pilot study is conducted to test the proposed system, and we show the potential of integrating vocal pain expressions to the robopatient. The platform has also been tested by two clinical experts with prior experience in abdominal palpation. Their evaluations on functionality and suggestions for improvements are presented. We highlight the advantages of the proposed robopatient with real-time vocal and facial pain expressions as a controllable simulator platform for abdominal palpation training studies. Finally, we discuss the limitations of the proposed approach and suggest several future directions for improvements.
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spelling pubmed-105242682023-09-28 Vocal pain expression augmentation for a robopatient Protpagorn, Namnueng Lalitharatne, Thilina Dulantha Costi, Leone Iida, Fumiya Front Robot AI Robotics and AI Abdominal palpation is one of the basic but important physical examination methods used by physicians. Visual, auditory, and haptic feedback from the patients are known to be the main sources of feedback they use in the diagnosis. However, learning to interpret this feedback and making accurate diagnosis require several years of training. Many abdominal palpation training simulators have been proposed to date, but very limited attempts have been reported in integrating vocal pain expressions into physical abdominal palpation simulators. Here, we present a vocal pain expression augmentation for a robopatient. The proposed robopatient is capable of providing real-time facial and vocal pain expressions based on the exerted palpation force and position on the abdominal phantom of the robopatient. A pilot study is conducted to test the proposed system, and we show the potential of integrating vocal pain expressions to the robopatient. The platform has also been tested by two clinical experts with prior experience in abdominal palpation. Their evaluations on functionality and suggestions for improvements are presented. We highlight the advantages of the proposed robopatient with real-time vocal and facial pain expressions as a controllable simulator platform for abdominal palpation training studies. Finally, we discuss the limitations of the proposed approach and suggest several future directions for improvements. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10524268/ /pubmed/37771605 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2023.1122914 Text en Copyright © 2023 Protpagorn, Lalitharatne, Costi and Iida. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Protpagorn, Namnueng
Lalitharatne, Thilina Dulantha
Costi, Leone
Iida, Fumiya
Vocal pain expression augmentation for a robopatient
title Vocal pain expression augmentation for a robopatient
title_full Vocal pain expression augmentation for a robopatient
title_fullStr Vocal pain expression augmentation for a robopatient
title_full_unstemmed Vocal pain expression augmentation for a robopatient
title_short Vocal pain expression augmentation for a robopatient
title_sort vocal pain expression augmentation for a robopatient
topic Robotics and AI
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10524268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37771605
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2023.1122914
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