文档介绍：Pressure Mapping as plement in 3D Pain
Drawings in the Back-pain Assessment Process: A
Proposed Method
Fotios Spyridonis and hita Ghinea
Department of Information Systems puting
Brunel University
Uxbridge, UK
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Abstract- Over the years, an increasing number of the adult In spite of this, the assessment of this plaint
population suffers from some form of back pain during their remains notoriously difficult, with only a small percent of
lifetime, something that consecutively has a very important ess in treating back pain existing, showing in that way the
impact on a country’s health, as well as economic systems. importance and need of identifying the best and most effective
Traditional methods of diagnosing and treating such problems ways bat this phenomenon specifically, and long term
normally involve the collection and visualization of such medical conditions in general, which affect a huge percentage of the
information on a paper and a 2D representation of the human population.
body, which have usually limited abilities in accurately recording
and representing pain, making them in that way difficult and Accordingly, the structure of this paper is as follows.
time consuming for both patients and doctors to use. In addition, Section 2 provides a more detailed overview of back pain
the a