Thermal image processing to Recognize and Quantify Pain in Human Body

The basic symptom of a human body for any sort of diseases or problems is pain. Pain can be termed as a message from the injured or diseased body part sent to the brain since ancient ages physicians have used pain as a symptom or benchmark to know the severity of a disease or the condition of the human body. Measuring or quantifying the pain can immensely help the physicians to diagnose the patient and to track the healing process of the patient. In the 21st century, Infrared thermography has become one of the best ways to diagnosis human body pain using the skin temperature. This article introduces various ways of quantifying the pain by using thermal or non-thermal methods.