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January 1, 2016Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy

Region of Interest Detection and Evaluation in Functional near Infrared Spectroscopy

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Key result

A computational method based on an optical flow algorithm successfully detected regions of interest and temporal interactions between channels in functional near infrared spectroscopy.

Population

Human subjects undergoing near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy for pain assessment

Comparison

Computational method based on an optical flow… vs Visual inspection and cross correlation analysis

Design

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Authors

RRRaul Fernandez RojasUniversity of CanberraXHXu HuangFujian Normal UniversityKOKeng‐Liang OuNational Taiwan University of Science and Technology

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Implication

May enhance NIR ROI detection for cortical pain mapping; leaves open clinical adoption pending larger validation.

Structured PICO

P
Population
Human subjects undergoing near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy for pain assessment
I
Intervention
Computational method based on an optical flow algorithm
C
Comparator
Visual inspection and cross correlation analysis
O
Outcome
Detection of regions of interest (pain-related activations in the primary somatosensory cortex)surrogate

An optical flow-based computational method can successfully detect regions of interest in near-infrared spectroscopy, potentially aiding in objective pain assessment.

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Rojas et al. (2016) studied Pain. Computational method based on an optical flow algorithm was evaluated on Detection of regions of interest in near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy. A computational method based on an optical flow algorithm successfully detected regions of interest and temporal interactions between channels in functional near infrared spectroscopy.

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