Pain Classification Using Statistical Feature Extraction Using Machine Learning Approach: A Pilot Study

Abstract

Electrodermal activity (EDA) is a general term for all electrical phenomena occurring on the skin, both passive and active. EDA measurements are used by researchers to measure levels of stress, emotion, mental strain, and so on. Measuring human stress levels, emotions, and mental strain are generally associated with the skin conductance response. The function GSR sensor is not only used to read people’s psychology but also can be used as a pain sensor used to read the degree of pain in the skin. This pilot study uses sample data from shimmersensing.com. The shimmersensing.com data is galvanic skin response sensor data. The output of this sensor is the conductivity value that occurs in the skin. The data obtained from shimmersensing.com will be extracted using the mean, standard deviation, maximum, minimum, RMS, skewness, and peak-to-peak characteristics. The extracted functions are selected using the forward selection method. The results of the feature selection are three features with an accuracy percentage greater than 50%, namely the mean feature, the RMS feature, and the skewness feature. The machine learning models used are bagged tree, SVM, and K-NN models. Of the three models used, the bagged tree model has the highest accuracy rate, at 98.05%, with an F1 score is 0.9807. The KNN model with k=10 has the lowest level of accuracy compared to other models, at 96.75%.