Title
Sparse Representation of Electrodermal Activity With Knowledge-Driven Dictionaries
Abstract
Biometric sensors and portable devices are being increasingly embedded into our everyday life, creating the need for robust physiological models that efficiently represent, analyze, and interpret the acquired signals. We propose a knowledge-driven method to represent electrodermal activity (EDA), a psychophysiological signal linked to stress, affect, and cognitive processing. We build EDA-specific dictionaries that accurately model both the slow varying tonic part and the signal fluctuations, called skin conductance responses (SCR), and use greedy sparse representation techniques to decompose the signal into a small number of atoms from the dictionary. Quantitative evaluation of our method considers signal reconstruction, compression rate, and information retrieval measures, that capture the ability of the model to incorporate the main signal characteristics, such as SCR occurrences. Compared to previous studies fitting a predetermined structure to the signal, results indicate that our approach provides benefits across all aforementioned criteria. This paper demonstrates the ability of appropriate dictionaries along with sparse decomposition methods to reliably represent EDA signals and provides a foundation for automatic measurement of SCR characteristics and the extraction of meaningful EDA features.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TBME.2014.2376960
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
feature extraction,neurophysiology,biosensors,signal reconstruction,dictionaries,electrodermal activity,physiology,skin,skin conductance response,psychology,shape,sparse representation,cognition,thyristors,orthogonal matching pursuit,compression rate
Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Cognition,Electrodiagnosis,Computer vision,Data compression ratio,Skin Physiological Processes,Pattern recognition,Sparse approximation,Biometrics,Signal reconstruction,Machine learning,Skin conductance
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
62
3
0018-9294
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
1.33
17
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Theodora Chaspari13819.43
Andreas Tsiartas2518.46
Leah I. Stein381.33
Sharon A. Cermak481.33
Narayanan Shrikanth55558439.23