1Anesthesiology (Division of Pain Management),University of California, San Francisco, 2Neurological Surgery and UCSF Weill Institute of Neurosciences,University of California, San Francisco, 3Anesthesiology (Division of Pain Management) and Neurological Surgery and UCSF Weill Institute of Neurosciences,University of California, San Francisco
Current pain scales used to quantify pain severity, such as visual analog scales, fail to capture the complexity of subjective pain experiences. Pain body diagrams are qualitative but may be more informative. The goal of this method is to extract quantitative metrics from pain body diagrams using novel pressure-hue transformation.
