Abstract Pain assessment in clinical settings can be a challenging task for clinic staff and patients. An automatic contactless pain estimation system via facial expression is decisive advantage. In the following article we present method classification based on mimic descriptors. To automatically process expressions from video data applied Facial Action Coding System (FACS). First, employed lo...

Severe persistent post-surgical pain (PPP) affects 2–10% of adults undergoing surgery, corresponding to at least 140 000 patients per year presenting with disabling pain in the UK. Surgery is indeed pivotal in the treatment of a number of serious diseases, and, while the overall benefits to patients are unquestionable, the quest of identifying improved techniques of preventing or mitigating sev...