Psychophysiological state changes assesment based on thermal face image—preliminary results

Abstract

The analysis of the patient’s psychophysiological condition is one of the key elements of properly conducted therapy. In the therapeutic tasks special attention is paid to monitoring the patient’s condition. Our method proposed a robust for segmentation errors (based on median value) and an easily applied method for assessing the thermal profile of the face and its usage in psychophysiological state observation. The obtained results suggest that the central part of the face provides sufficient information to discriminate between an active and a non active individual, even during minor physical effort.