Measuring the Sympathetic Skin Response on Body and Using as Diagnosis-Purposed for Lung Cancer Patients by Artificial Neural Networks

Abstract

In this study, the points of Sympathetic skin response that can be measured from different zones on body of healthy and patient subjects are determined. The Sympathetic skin responses on these points are obtained using a measurement device that is called Grass Model 7 Polygraph 1. The database is formed in Cerrahpaşa University, Faculty of Medicine and data is taken from healthy and patient subjects who are volunteer. Some parameters of the subjects which are more effective on SSR such as height, weight, age must be chosen between the specific limits to obtain results more clearly. The symmetric points on human body are chosen for the measurement. After that, the Sympathetic skin response values which are measured from a human body are simulated and tested by using artificial neural network toolbox on Matlab software. The structure of the chosen neural network is a multilayer feedforward neural network. According to simulation results, the application method as diagnosis-purposed of the lung cancer patients is explained by using the differences related to these values on the skin.

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“…The database used in this study was established in The limit values of the some parameters that are effective on SSR (age, height, weight) needs to be determined before the SSR measurements are obtained in order to make the measurements much more meaningful [3]. In the research, great attention was paid in order to have the subjects' age, weight and height ranges in these limits.…”

“…Al. in 2012, the relationship between FMS and SSR was examined in detail and it was stated that SSR could be used in diagnosing FMS [3], [5], [18], [19].…”

“…Women are more likely to suffer this illness. It was in recent years concluded, not definitely, that FMS may be related with Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) [3]- [7].…”

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“…As the components of ANS, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system dysfunction occurs and SSR is thought to be effective for determining this abnormality in patients with FMS [6]. Also, there have been many other studies indicating the relationship between SSR and ANS [7,8]. According to these data in current literature, our aim is to investigate the relationship between laboratory tests and SSR recordings by using artificial neural networks (ANN) in patients with FMS.…”