Stress Level Detection and Evaluation from Phonation and PPG Signals Recorded in an Open-Air MRI Device

This paper deals with two modalities for stress detection and evaluation—vowel phonation speech signal and photo-plethysmography (PPG) signal. The main measurement is carried out in four phases representing different stress conditions for the tested person. The first and last phases are realized in...

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Main Authors: Jiří Přibil, Anna Přibilová, Ivan Frollo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-12-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/24/11748
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Anna Přibilová
Ivan Frollo
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description This paper deals with two modalities for stress detection and evaluation—vowel phonation speech signal and photo-plethysmography (PPG) signal. The main measurement is carried out in four phases representing different stress conditions for the tested person. The first and last phases are realized in laboratory conditions. The PPG and phonation signals are recorded inside the magnetic resonance imaging scanner working with a weak magnetic field up to 0.2 T in a silent state and/or with a running scan sequence during the middle two phases. From the recorded phonation signal, different speech features are determined for statistical analysis and evaluation by the Gaussian mixture models (GMM) classifier. A database of affective sounds and two databases of emotional speech were used for GMM creation and training. The second part of the developed method gives comparison of results obtained from the statistical description of the sensed PPG wave together with the determined heart rate and Oliva–Roztocil index values. The fusion of results obtained from both modalities gives the final stress level. The performed experiments confirm our working assumption that a fusion of both types of analysis is usable for this task—the final stress level values give better results than the speech or PPG signals alone.
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spelling doaj.art-6b469b3ce9f640ed868ee87ccdc98a972023-11-23T03:37:43ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172021-12-0111241174810.3390/app112411748Stress Level Detection and Evaluation from Phonation and PPG Signals Recorded in an Open-Air MRI DeviceJiří Přibil0Anna Přibilová1Ivan Frollo2Institute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 841 04 Bratislava, SlovakiaInstitute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 841 04 Bratislava, SlovakiaInstitute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 841 04 Bratislava, SlovakiaThis paper deals with two modalities for stress detection and evaluation—vowel phonation speech signal and photo-plethysmography (PPG) signal. The main measurement is carried out in four phases representing different stress conditions for the tested person. The first and last phases are realized in laboratory conditions. The PPG and phonation signals are recorded inside the magnetic resonance imaging scanner working with a weak magnetic field up to 0.2 T in a silent state and/or with a running scan sequence during the middle two phases. From the recorded phonation signal, different speech features are determined for statistical analysis and evaluation by the Gaussian mixture models (GMM) classifier. A database of affective sounds and two databases of emotional speech were used for GMM creation and training. The second part of the developed method gives comparison of results obtained from the statistical description of the sensed PPG wave together with the determined heart rate and Oliva–Roztocil index values. The fusion of results obtained from both modalities gives the final stress level. The performed experiments confirm our working assumption that a fusion of both types of analysis is usable for this task—the final stress level values give better results than the speech or PPG signals alone.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/24/11748stress detection and evaluationGMM-based classificationphoto-plethysmographic wave analysis
spellingShingle Jiří Přibil
Anna Přibilová
Ivan Frollo
Stress Level Detection and Evaluation from Phonation and PPG Signals Recorded in an Open-Air MRI Device
Applied Sciences
stress detection and evaluation
GMM-based classification
photo-plethysmographic wave analysis
title Stress Level Detection and Evaluation from Phonation and PPG Signals Recorded in an Open-Air MRI Device
title_full Stress Level Detection and Evaluation from Phonation and PPG Signals Recorded in an Open-Air MRI Device
title_fullStr Stress Level Detection and Evaluation from Phonation and PPG Signals Recorded in an Open-Air MRI Device
title_full_unstemmed Stress Level Detection and Evaluation from Phonation and PPG Signals Recorded in an Open-Air MRI Device
title_short Stress Level Detection and Evaluation from Phonation and PPG Signals Recorded in an Open-Air MRI Device
title_sort stress level detection and evaluation from phonation and ppg signals recorded in an open air mri device
topic stress detection and evaluation
GMM-based classification
photo-plethysmographic wave analysis
url https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/24/11748
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