Neonatal Procedural Pain Lab Report

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\section{Experimental Results and Discussion}
In this section, we report the result of assessing neonatal procedural pain for all the 31 subjects (Section VI.A) as well as the results of assessing pain for a specific group such as a female group of neonates (Section VI.B). We also provide a comparison of our results with the results of existing similar works (Section VI.C).

\subsection{General Model}
To assess neonatal procedural pain, we conducted two set of experiments. In the first experiment, we used a single pain response to classify the emotional state of 31 neonates into pain or no-pain (unimodel). In the second experiment, we combined different pain responses, using feature-fusion and decision-fusion, to classify the emotional state

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