Type 1 Fuzzy Logic Classification of Pain Severity (Pain Assessment)

Abstract

AbstractFuzzy logic has given man a vast range of opportunities in different field of practice. Fuzzy logic applications are often used in automated systems, robotics and even in medicine. Medical applications of fuzzy logic has greatly improved some gray areas in medical practices especially when considering factors that has no direct unit of measurement to define its degree or magnitude and this includes pain assessment. Assessing pain has become a challenge for medical practitioners since the degree of its severity varies among people. There are number of tools to assess the severity of pain, but none of these have described a constant scale for each corresponding degree of severity. This paper applies the concepts of fuzzy logic in assessing the severity of pain. The goal of the study is to come up with a type 1 fuzzy logic classification of pain assessment in Excel VB macro program platform.