Patent ID: 9713433
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61N,G16H,G16Z

Claim:
1. A method of managing labor pain using neurophysiological data acquired from the brain of a female subject, the method comprising: identifying activity-related features in said data; constructing a subject-specific brain network activity (BNA) pattern having a plurality of nodes, wherein each node represents a feature of said activity-related features, and each pair of nodes is assigned with a connectivity weight; calculating a BNA pattern similarity describing a comparison between said constructed BNA pattern and a baseline BNA pattern; parceling the data according to said activity-related features to define a plurality of capsules, each representing a spatiotemporal activity region in the brain; comparing at least some of said defined capsules to at least one reference capsule; and assessing the likelihood that the subject is experiencing labor pain responsively to said BNA pattern similarity and said comparison between said defined capsules and said at least one reference capsule; wherein said neurophysiological data comprises data acquired before, during and/or after a treatment, and the method comprises applying said treatment.