Infrared neural stimulation (INS) is a label-free method that uses infrared light to excite neural tissue. Because the biophysical mechanism of INS is not fully understood, we present a computational modeling study demonstrating photomechanical effects in a rat sciatic nerve from infrared pulses across a range of pulse widths. By comparing the resulting pressure and displacement across different pulse widths, this allows for insight of the sensitivity of the photomechanical effects from laser irradiation. Additionally, a further look into the initial spike of the Ho:YAG laser shows that a photomechanical component could possibly explain the lower stimulation threshold.
Significance: Physiological parameters extracted from diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) provide clinicians quantitative information about tissue that helps aid in diagnosis. There is a great need for an accurate and cost-effective method for extracting parameters from DRS measurements.
Aim: The aim is to explore the accuracy and speed of physiological parameter extraction using machine learning models compared to that of the widely used Monte Carlo lookup table (MCLUT) inverse model.
Approach: Diffuse reflectance spectra were simulated using a light transport model based on Monte Carlo simulations and weighted to six wavelengths. Deep learning (DL), random forest (RF), gradient boosting machine (GBM), and generalized linear model (GLM) machine learning models were built using a training set of 10,000 spectra from the simulated data. The MCLUT and machine learning models were used to predict physiological parameters from a separate test set of 30,000 simulated spectra. Mean absolute errors were calculated to evaluate the accuracy and compare it among MCLUT and machine learning models. In addition, the computational time to predict parameters from the test set was recorded to compare the speed among MCLUT and machine learning models.
Results: The DL, RF, GBM, and GLM models all had significantly lower errors than the MCLUT inverse method for six wavelengths. The DL model proved to have the lowest errors, with all absolute percent errors under 10%. The DL model had much faster runtimes than the MCLUT.
Conclusions: Machine learning is promising for extracting physiological parameters from six-wavelength DRS data, with both lower errors and a faster runtime than the widely used MCLUT model.
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