Title
Photoplethysmography Based Psychological Stress Detection With Pulse Rate Variability Feature Differences And Elastic Net
Abstract
Detecting psychological stress in daily life is useful to stress management. However, existing stress-detection models with only heartbeat/pulse input are limited in prediction output granularity, and models with multiple prediction levels output usually require additional bio-signal other than heartbeat, which may increase the number of sensors and be wearable unfriendly. In this study, we took a novel approach of incremental pulse rate variability and elastic-net regression in predicting mental stress. Mental arithmetic task paradigm was used during the experiments. A total of 178 participants involved in the model building, and the model was verified with a group of 29 participants in the laboratory and 40 participants in a 14-day follow-up field test. The result showed significant median correlations between self-report and model-prediction stress levels (cross-validation: r=0.72 (p<0.0001), laboratory verification: r=0.70 (p<0.0001), field test r=0.56 (p<0.0001)) with fine granularity ratings of 0-7 float numbers. The correct prediction took 86%-91% of the testing samples with error standard deviation of 0.68-0.81 in the label space of 14. By simplifying the process of prediction with a perspective of stress difference and handling the collinearity among pulse rate variability features with elastic net, we successfully built a stress prediction model with only pulse rate variability input source, fine granularity output and portable friendly sensor.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1177/1550147718803298
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Heart rate variability, stress detection, regression, field test, photoplethysmography
Heartbeat,Regression,Simulation,Computer science,Elastic net regularization,Heart rate variability,Photoplethysmogram,Stress management,Pulse (signal processing),Granularity,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
9
1550-1477
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fenghua Li126334.70
Peida Xu200.34
Shichun Zheng300.34
Wenfeng Chen4564.75
Yang Yan500.34
Suo Lu600.34
Zhengkui Liu700.34