Shaibal Barua

Physiological Sensor Signals Classification for Healthcare Using Sensor Data Fusion and Case-Based Reasoning

Today, clinicians often do diagnosis and classification of diseases based on information collected from several physiological sensor signals. However, sensor signal could easily be vulnerable to uncertain noises or interferences and due to large individual variations sensitivity to different physiological sensors could also vary. Therefore, multiple sensor signal fusion is valuable to provide more robust and reliable decision. This paper demonstrates a physiological sensor signal classification approach using sensor signal fusion and case-based reasoning. The proposed approach has been evaluated to classify Stressed or Relaxed individuals using sensor data fusion. Physiological sensor signals i.e., Heart Rate (HR), Finger Temperature (FT), Respiration Rate (RR), Carbon dioxide (CO2) and Oxygen Saturation (SpO2) are collected during the data collection phase. Here, sensor fusion has been done in two different ways: (i) decision-level fusion using features extracted through traditional approaches; and (ii) data-level fusion using features extracted by means of Multivariate Multiscale Entropy (MMSE). Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) is applied for the classification of the signals. The experimental result shows that the proposed system could classify Stressed or Relaxed individual 87.5% accurately compare to an expert in the domain. So, it shows promising result in the psychophysiological domain and could be possible to adapt this approach to other relevant healthcare systems.

Supervised machine learning algorithms to diagnose stress for vehicle drivers based on physiological sensor signals.

Machine learning algorithms play an important role in computer science research. Recent advancement in sensor data collection in clinical sciences lead to a complex, heterogeneous data processing, and analysis for patient diagnosis and prognosis. Diagnosis and treatment of patients based on manual analysis of these sensor data are difficult and time consuming. Therefore, development of Knowledge-based systems to support clinicians in decision-making is important. However, it is necessary to perform experimental work to compare performances of different machine learning methods to help to select appropriate method for a specific characteristic of data sets. This paper compares classification performance of three popular machine learning methods i.e., case-based reasoning, neutral networks and support vector machine to diagnose stress of vehicle drivers using finger temperature and heart rate variability. The experimental results show that case-based reasoning outperforms other two methods in terms of classification accuracy. Case-based reasoning has achieved 80% and 86% accuracy to classify stress using finger temperature and heart rate variability. On contrary, both neural network and support vector machine have achieved less than 80% accuracy by using both physiological signals.

Intelligent automated eeg artifacts handling using wavelet transform, independent component analysis and hierarchal clustering

Billions of interconnected neurons are the building block of the human brain. For each brain activity these neurons produce electrical signals or brain waves that can be obtained by the Electroencephalogram (EEG) recording. Due to the characteristics of EEG signals, recorded signals often contaminate with undesired physiological signals other than the cerebral signal that is referred to as the EEG artifacts such as the ocular or the muscle artifacts. Therefore, identification and handling of artifacts in the EEG signals in a proper way is becoming an important research area. This paper presents an automated EEG artifacts handling approach, combining Wavelet transform, Independent Component Analysis (ICA), and Hierarchical clustering. The effectiveness of the proposed approach has been examined and observed on real EEG recording. According to the result, the proposed approach identified artifacts in the EEG signals effectively and after handling artifacts EEG signals showed acceptable considering visual inspection.

Automated EEG Artifact Handling With Application in Driver Monitoring

Automated analyses of electroencephalographic (EEG) signals acquired in naturalistic environments are becoming increasingly important in areas such as brain–computer interfaces and behavior science. However, the recorded EEG in such environments is often heavily contaminated by motion artifacts and eye movements. This poses new requirements on artifact handling. The objective of this paper is to present an automated EEG artifacts handling algorithm, which will be used as a preprocessing step in a driver monitoring application. The algorithm, named Automated aRTifacts handling in EEG (ARTE), is based on wavelets, independent component analysis, and hierarchical clustering. The algorithm is tested on a dataset obtained from a driver sleepiness study including 30 drivers and 540 30-min 30-channel EEG recordings. The algorithm is evaluated by a clinical neurophysiologist, by quantitative criteria (signal quality index, mean square error, relative error, and mean absolute error), and by demonstrating its usefulness as a preprocessing step in driver monitoring, here exemplified with driver sleepiness classification. All results are compared with a state-of-the-art algorithm called FORCe. The quantitative and expert evaluation results show that the two algorithms are comparable, and that both algorithms significantly reduce the impact of artifacts in recorded EEG signals. When artifact handling is used as a preprocessing step in driver sleepiness classification, the classification accuracy increased by 5% when using ARTE and by 2% when using FORCe. The advantage with ARTE is that it is data driven and does not rely on additional reference signals or manually defined thresholds, making it well suited for use in dynamic settings where unforeseen and rare artifacts are commonly encountered.

Intelligent Driver Monitoring Based on Physiological Sensor Signals: Application Using Camera

Recently, there has been increasing interest in low-cost, non-contact and pervasive methods for monitoring physiological information for the drivers. For the intelligent driver monitoring system there has been so many approaches like facial expression based method, driving behavior based method and physiological parameters based method. Physiological parameters such as, heart rate (HR), heart rate variability (HRV), respiration rate (RR) etc. are mainly used to monitor physical and mental state. Also, in recent decades, there has been increasing interest in low-cost, non-contact and pervasive methods for measuring physiological information. Monitoring physiological parameters based on camera images is such kind of expected methods that could offer a new paradigm for drivers health monitoring. In this paper, we review the latest developments in using camera images for non-contact physiological parameters that provides a resource for researchers and developers working in the area.

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In-Vehicle Stress Monitoring Based on EEG Signal

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Scalable Framework for Distributed Case-Based Reasoning for Big Data Analytics

This paper proposes a scalable framework for distributed case-based reasoning methodology to provide actionable knowledge based on historical big amount of data. The framework addresses several challenges, i.e., promptly analyse big data, cross-domain, use-case specific data processing, multi-source case representation, dynamic case-management, uncertainty, check the plausibility of solution after adaptation etc. through its’ five modules architectures. The architecture allows the functionalities with distributed data analytics and intended to provide solutions under different conditions, i.e. data size, velocity, variety etc.

Distributed Multivariate Physiological Signal Analytics for Drivers’ Mental State Monitoring

This paper presents a distributed data analytics approach for drivers’ mental state monitoring using multivariate physiological signals. Driver’s mental states such as cognitive distraction, sleepiness, stress, etc. can be fatal contributing factors and to prevent car crashes these factors need to be understood. Here, a cloud-based approach with heterogeneous sensor sources that generates extremely large data sets of physiological signals need to be handled and analysed in a big data scenario. In the proposed physiological big data analytics approach, for driver state monitoring, heterogeneous data coming from multiple sources i.e., multivariate physiological signals are used, processed and analyzed to aware impaired vehicle drivers. Here, in a distributed big data environment, multi-agent case-based reasoning facilitates parallel case similarity matching and handles data that are coming from single and multiple physiological signal sources.

A Case-Based Classification for Drivers’ Alcohol Detection Using Physiological Signals

This paper presents a case-based classification system for alcohol detection using physiological parameters. Here, four physiological parameters e.g. Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Respiration Rate ...