Continuous short-term pain assessment in temporomandibular joint therapy using LSTM models supported by heat-induced pain data patterns

Abstract:

This study aims to design a time-continuous pain level assessment system for temporomandibular joint therapy. Our objectives cover verifying literature suggestions on pain stimulus, protocols for collecting reference data, and continuous pain recognition models. We use two types of pain data acquired during (1) heat stimulation and (2) temporomandibular joint therapy. Thirty-six …