Developing a Multimodal Cancer Pain Database to Support AI-Based Automatic Pain Assessment

Summary

The goal of this observational study is to collect short video and sound recordings of people with cancer to create a secure database that can be used in future research to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) tool for pain assessment. The main aim is to build a large, high-quality collection of audiovisual data showing how people with cancer express themselves when they do and do not have pain.

Participants will include adults with cancer who are admitted to the oncology ward for pain treatment and a control group admitted for chemotherapy who have no pain. After giving consent, participants will:

* Be recorded on video (from the shoulders up) for up to 60 seconds while reading a short sentence and describing their pain or daily experience.
* Complete a short questionnaire about their mood and pain expression.
* Allow researchers to collect some information from their medical record, such as their pain score, medications, and cancer type.

These recordings will be securely stored and used to create a database for future AI research. No medical tests, new treatments, or extra hospital visits are involved. This study will provide the foundation for developing future AI-based tools that could support doctors and patients in monitoring and managing pain more accurately and easily.

Conditions

• Cancer-related Pain
• Pain Assessment
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Oncology
• Oncology Pain
• Database
• Facial Expression
• Voice
• Cancer

Interventions

OTHER

Audiovisual and questionnaire-based data collection (once)

Participants will be video recorded for up to 60 seconds from the shoulders up while reading a short sentence and describing their pain or daily experience. They will also complete a brief questionnaire about their mood and how they express pain. No drugs, medical devices, or clinical treatments are used. This non-invasive data collection is performed once for participants without pain.

OTHER

Audiovisual and questionnaire-based data collection (consecutive)

Participants will be video recorded for up to 60 seconds from the shoulders up while reading a short sentence and describing their pain or daily experience. They will also complete a brief questionnaire about their mood and how they express pain. No drugs, medical devices, or clinical treatments are used. This non-invasive data collection is performed on several consecutive days during admission for participants with pain.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Delft University of Technology

  collaborator OTHER

• Dr. Mark Mulder

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Mark Mulder, dr.ir. · Erasmus University Medical Centre

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-12-01

Primary Completion

2027-12-31

Completion

2027-12-31

Countries

• Netherlands

Study Locations