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Previous works relied on manually designed hand-crafted features for pain classification, whereas deep learning approaches could autonomously integrate feature engineering, selection, and model optimization.
Do deep learning architectures improve the classification accuracy of nociceptive pain levels compared to hand-crafted feature engineering?
Do deep learning architectures improve the classification accuracy of nociceptive pain levels compared to hand-crafted feature engineering?
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Deep learning architectures using electrodermal activity can accurately classify nociceptive pain levels, outperforming traditional manual feature engineering methods.
Standard feature engineering involves manually designing measurable descriptors based on some expert knowledge in the domain of application, followed by the selection of the best performing set of designed features for the subsequent optimisation of an inference model. Several studies have shown that this whole manual process can be efficiently replaced by deep learning approaches which are characterised by the integration of feature engineering, feature selection and inference model optimisation into a single learning process. In the following work, deep learning architectures are designed for the assessment of measurable physiological channels in order to perform an accurate classification of different levels of artificially induced nociceptive pain. In contrast to previous works, which rely on carefully designed sets of hand-crafted features, the current work aims at building competitive pain intensity inference models through autonomous feature learning, based on deep neural networks. The assessment of the designed deep learning architectures is based on the BioVid Heat Pain Database (Part A) and experimental validation demonstrates that the proposed uni-modal architecture for the electrodermal activity (EDA) and the deep fusion approaches significantly outperform previous methods reported in the literature, with respective average performances of 84.57 % and 84.40 % for the binary classification experiment consisting of the discrimination between the baseline and the pain tolerance level ( T 0 vs. T 4 ) in a Leave-One-Subject-Out (LOSO) cross-validation evaluation setting. Moreover, the experimental results clearly show the relevance of the proposed approaches, which also offer more flexibility in the case of transfer learning due to the modular nature of deep neural networks.
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