Representation of pain in somatosensory cortex: Preliminary results from fNIRs

Author

Gokcay, D. ; Eken, A. ; Mapelli, I. ; Cobanoglu, O. ; Saracaydin, G. ; Kayalar, A. ; Kantar, E.

Author_Institution

Enformatik Enstitusu, Orta Dogu Teknik Univ., Ankara, Turkey

fYear

2013

fDate

24-26 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this study the brain activity created by pain stimulus is investigated through fNIRs imaging technique. The channels are grouped into 3 clusters by automatic processing of the optical signal: active, passive, negative active. Yule-Walker and k-means are used for signal processing and clustering respectively. The active channels are successfully identified. This study is a preliminary study which will allow for reliable detection of brain activity related to pain stimulus when repeated on multiple subjects.

Keywords

biomedical MRI; biomedical optical imaging; brain; medical image processing; near-field scanning optical microscopy; neurophysiology; pattern clustering; Yule-Walker; active channels; active signal; automatic optical signal processing; brain activity detection; fNIR imaging technique; k-means; negative active signal; pain representation; pain stimulus; passive signal; signal clustering; somatosensory cortex; Art; Brain; Optical imaging; Pain; Positron emission tomography; Spectroscopy; clustering; fNIRs; pain stimulus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2013 21st

Conference_Location

Haspolat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5562-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-5561-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIU.2013.6531527

Filename

6531527