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ArticleProceedings. IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems2025

Few-Shot Prompting with Vision Language Model for Pain Classification in Infant Cry Sounds.

Anthony McCofie, Abhiram Kandiyana, Peter R Mouton, Yu Sun, Dmitry Goldgof

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Article in Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  1. Artificial intelligence in pediatric pain: a systematic review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2026
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Anthony McCofieComputer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Abhiram KandiyanaComputer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Peter R MoutonSRC Biosciences, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Yu SunComputer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Dmitry GoldgofComputer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.

Funding

Developing AI-Driven Pain Intensity and Pain Sensitization Biomarker Signatures to Optimize Neonatal Pain ManagementUG3NS138882 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI ANAND, KANWALJEET S, HO, THAO · 2024 to 2024
$1.3M
A Multimodal Approach for Monitoring Prolonged Acute Pain in NeonatesR21NR018756 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI SUN, YU · 2020 to 2021
$401k
An AI-based Multimodal Approach to Predict Pain in Postnatal Care ScenariosR41HD109086 · NICHD · STEREOLOGY RESOURCE CENTER, INC. · PI MOUTON, PETER RANDOLPH, SUN, YU · 2022 to 2022
$315k
NICHD NIH HHS R41 HD109086NINDS NIH HHS UG3 NS138882NINR NIH HHS R21 NR018756
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurately detecting pain in infants remains a complex challenge. Conventional deep neural networks used for analyzing infant cry sounds typically demand large labeled datasets, substantial computational power, and often lack interpretability. In this work, we introduce a novel approach that leverages OpenAI's vision-language model, GPT-4(V), combined with mel spectrogram-based representations of infant cries through prompting. This prompting strategy significantly reduces the dependence on large training datasets while enhancing transparency and interpretability. Using the USF-MNPAD-II dataset, our method achieves an accuracy of 83.33% with only 16 training samples, in contrast to the 4,914 samples required in the baseline model. To our knowledge, this represents the first application of few-shot prompting with vision-language models such as GPT-4o for infant pain classification.

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few-shot promptinginfant pain detectionlarge language modelpain classificationvision language model

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