Pain medicine

Refining multiple artificial intelligence strategies for automatic pain assessment investigations (RUGGI Study)): A study protocol

Eur J Anaesthesiol Intensive CarePublished Prospective noninterventional study

Authors' conclusion

This study will provide essential data for developing and validating integrated AI tools for objective, multidimensional pain assessment, with potential future clinical and therapeutic applications.

Study context

Population
Adults (>18 years) with chronic primary or secondary pain (oncologic and nononcologic) able to consent; excluding severe psychiatric or cognitive disorders and psychotropic medications; University of Salerno Hospital, Italy
Outcome
Predictive performance of artificial intelligence (AI) models (sensitivity, specificity, AUC-ROC) for automatic pain assessment from multimodal data
Methodological detailsprotocol, single-centre
  • Protocol
  • Single-centre

Main finding

As reported in the abstract

  • No results reported (study ongoing)

Observational data: associations, not effects.

Original publication

Refining multiple artificial intelligence strategies for automatic pain assessment investigations (RUGGI Study)): A study protocol. Eur J Anaesthesiol Intensive Care. Published 15 May 2026. doi:10.1097/ea9.0000000000000111

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