Title
Simultaneous Measurement of Ear Canal Movement, Electromyography of the Masseter Muscle and Occlusal Force for Earphone-Type Occlusal Force Estimation Device Development.
Abstract
We intend to develop earphone-type wearable devices to measure occlusal force by measuring ear canal movement using an ear sensor that we developed. The proposed device can measure occlusal force during eating. In this work, we simultaneously measured the ear canal movement (ear sensor value), the surface electromyography (EMG) of the masseter muscle and the occlusal force six times from five subjects as a basic study toward occlusal force meter development. Using the results, we investigated the correlation coefficient between the ear sensor value and the occlusal force, and the partial correlation coefficient between ear sensor values. Additionally, we investigated the average of the partial correlation coefficient and the absolute value of the average for each subject. The absolute value results indicated strong correlation, with correlation coefficients exceeding 0.9514 for all subjects. The subjects showed a lowest partial correlation coefficient of 0.6161 and a highest value of 0.8286. This was also indicative of correlation. We then estimated the occlusal force via a single regression analysis for each subject. Evaluation of the proposed method via the cross-validation method indicated that the root-mean-square error when comparing actual values with estimates for the five subjects ranged from 0.0338 to 0.0969.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19153441
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
occlusal force estimation,ear sensor,ear canal movement,optical measurement,masseter muscle myopotential,occlusal force,correlation,partial correlation
Correlation coefficient,Partial correlation,Regression analysis,Masseter muscle,Orthodontics,Electromyography,Electronic engineering,Correlation,Metre (music),Engineering,Ear canal
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
15
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mami Kurosawa141.51
Kazuhiro Taniguchi200.68
Hideya Momose300.34
Masao Sakaguchi400.34
Masayoshi Kamijo500.68
Atsushi Nishikawa65720.30