Clinical trial · Observational
Developing a Multimodal Cancer Pain Database to Support AI-Based Automatic Pain Assessment
SENSAI: Seeing, hEaring, seNsing: Smart, Effortless and Objective Pain Assessment With Mobile AI Technology - DataBase Development
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
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
Conditions (9)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Cancer | Malignant Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
| Cancer-related Pain | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Database | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Facial Expression | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Oncology | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Oncology Pain | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Pain Assessment | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Voice | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audiovisual and questionnaire-based data collection (consecutive) | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Audiovisual and questionnaire-based data collection (once) | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- label
- Pain Group
- description
- Adults (18 years and older) with active cancer who are admitted to the oncology ward for cancer-related pain. Participants will be recorded on video (from the shoulders up) for up to 60 seconds while reading a short sentence and describing their pain experience. They will also complete a short questionnaire about their mood and pain expression. Audiovisual data and selected clinical information (such as pain scores and medications) will be collected from their medical record. Participants may be recorded on several consecutive days during admission.
- interventionNames
- Other: Audiovisual and questionnaire-based data collection (consecutive)
- label
- Control Group
- description
- Adults (18 years and older) with active cancer who are admitted to the oncology ward for chemotherapy and report no pain (Numerical Rating Scale score = 0). Participants will be recorded on video (from the shoulders up) for up to 60 seconds while reading a short sentence and describing their daily experience. They will also complete a short questionnaire about their mood and pain expression. Only one recording will be made for each participant.
- interventionNames
- Other: Audiovisual and questionnaire-based data collection (once)
Primary outcomes (1)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patients (≥18 years) * Diagnosed with cancer, active * Able to communicate verbally in Dutch or English * Able to provide written informed consent. * Pain group specific: * Experiencing pain related to cancer * Admitted to the hospital due to pain * Control group specific: * Not experiencing pain (NRS = 0) * Admitted to the hospital for chemotherapy Exclusion Criteria: * Cognitive, physical, or medical limitations that prevent participation in the audiovisual recording sessions or affect facial expressions or voice (e.g. facial paralysis, tracheostomy, severe speech impairment). * Critical illness or end-of-life care where participation would impose an additional burden. * Experiencing pain not associated with cancer * Infectious isolation precautions that prevent safe data collection
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