Multi-scale regional attention networks for pain estimation

Shaoxing Cui, Dong Huang, Yue Ni, Xiaoyi Feng

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Abstract

Pain is a common treatment response of patients in clinical medicine, which indicates the patient's status. Of late, automatic pain estimation methods have received more and more attention due to their convenience and objectivity. However, the previous researches mostly employ existing models or frameworks, without the exploration of pain locality. In this paper, we propose Multi-Scale Regional Attention Networks (MSRAN), to adaptively capture the importance of facial pain regions. Specifically, the proposed MSRAN aggregates and embeds varied number of multi-scale region features by a convolutional neural network with self-attention module for the locality of pain. Then, the proposed relation-attention module is leveraged to explore the relationship of pain regions. Last, the well-designed loss function is employed to increase the discrimination of model. We validate our MSRAN on the public pain dataset, which shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICBBT 2021 - Proceedings of 2021 13th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technology
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages1-8
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781450389655
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 May 2021
Event13th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technology, ICBBT 2021 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 21 May 202123 May 2021

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technology, ICBBT 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period21/05/2123/05/21

Keywords

  • Attention mechanism
  • Deep neural networks
  • Discriminative loss function
  • Multi-scale method
  • Pain estimation

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