About the Authors

Daniel Callan

dcallan@nict.go.jp (DC); shaun.england@chronicpd.com (SE)

Affiliations Center for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, Chronic Pain Diagnostics, Roseville, California, United States of America

Lloyd Mills

Affiliation Chronic Pain Diagnostics, Roseville, California, United States of America

Connie Nott

Affiliation Chronic Pain Diagnostics, Roseville, California, United States of America

Robert England

Affiliation Chronic Pain Diagnostics, Roseville, California, United States of America

Shaun England

dcallan@nict.go.jp (DC); shaun.england@chronicpd.com (SE)

Affiliation Chronic Pain Diagnostics, Roseville, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: Authors in this study are employees and own shares in Chronic Pain Diagnostics, whose company funded this study. Chronic Pain Diagnostics has the following patent that is related to some of the procedures used in this study (Patent No.: US 7,462,155 B2, Objective Determination of Chronic Pain in Patients). There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM SE CN RE. Performed the experiments: LM SE CN RE. Analyzed the data: DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC LM SE CN RE. Wrote the paper: DC LM SE CN.