Why the study?
No studies had used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to explore prefrontal cortex functional alterations to automatically achieve a clinical diagnosis of chronic pain.
Does functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) combined with machine learning accurately diagnose chronic musculoskeletal pain?
Population
19 chronic pain patients and 32 healthy controls
Comparison
Chronic pain patients vs healthy controls
Design
Case-control study
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating for fNIRS-ML diagnosis of chronic musculoskeletal pain; prospective validation required before clinical use.
Does functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) combined with machine learning accurately diagnose chronic musculoskeletal pain?
fNIRS combined with machine learning can accurately identify chronic musculoskeletal pain patients based on prefrontal cortex functional connectivity.
Zeng et al. (2023) studied this question.
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