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What does a pain 'biomarker' mean and can a machine be taught to measure pain?
1Department of Neurosurgery, Rhode Island Hospital, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Neuroscience Letters
|December 4, 2018
Abstract:
Artificial intelligence allows machines to predict human faculties such as image and voice recognition. Can machines be taught to measure pain? We argue that the two fundamental requirements for a device with 'pain biomarker' capabilities are hardware and software. We discuss the merits and limitations of electroencephalography (EEG) as the hardware component of a putative embodiment of the device, and advances in the application of machine learning approaches to EEG for predicting pain.