Automatic identification of artifacts in electrodermal activity data

Recently, wearable devices have allowed for long term, ambulatory measurement of electrodermal activity (EDA). Despite the fact that ambulatory recording can be noisy, and recording artifacts can easily be mistaken for a physiological response during analysis, to date there is no automatic method fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Taylor, Sara Ann, Jaques, Natasha Mary, Chen, Weixuan, Fedor, Szymon, Sano, Akane, Picard, Rosalind W.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103781
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9550-2553
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8413-9469
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4484-8946
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5661-0022
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9857-0188
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4133-9230
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Summary:Recently, wearable devices have allowed for long term, ambulatory measurement of electrodermal activity (EDA). Despite the fact that ambulatory recording can be noisy, and recording artifacts can easily be mistaken for a physiological response during analysis, to date there is no automatic method for detecting artifacts. This paper describes the development of a machine learning algorithm for automatically detecting EDA artifacts, and provides an empirical evaluation of classification performance. We have encoded our results into a freely available web-based tool for artifact and peak detection.