Stress Monitoring in Free-Living Environments

Abstract

Stress monitoring is an important area of research with significant implications for individuals’ physical and mental health. We present a data-driven approach for stress detection based on convolutional neural networks while addressing the problems of the best sensor channel and the lack of knowledge about stress episodes. Our work is the first to present an analysis of stress-related sensor data collected in real-world conditions from individuals diagnosed with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) and undergoing treatment to abstain from alcohol. We developed polynomial-time sensor channel selection algorithms to determine the best sensor modality for a machine learning task. We model the time variation in stress labels expressed by the participants as the subjective effects of stress. We addressed the subjective nature of stress by determining the optimal input length around stress events with an iterative search algorithm.

Publication
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI).
Ramesh Kumar Sah
Ramesh Kumar Sah
Research Assistant

I am a Computer Science PhD student in the Embedded Machine Intelligence Laboratory (EMIL) at Washington State University, Pullman.

Hassan Ghasemzadeh
Hassan Ghasemzadeh
Director

Hassan Ghasemzadeh is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University (ASU) and a Computer Science Adjunct Faculty at Washington State University (WSU).