Title Classifying Stress From Heart Rate Variability Using Salivary Biomarkers as Reference.
Author Liew, Wei Shiung; Seera, Manjeevan; Loo, Chu Kiong; Lim, Einly; Kubota, Naoyuki
Journal IEEE Trans Neural Netw Learn Syst Publication Year/Month 2016-Oct
PMID 26340787 PMCID -N/A-

An accurate and noninvasive stress assessment from human physiology is a strenuous task. In this paper, a pattern recognition system to learn complex correlates between heart rate variability (HRV) features and salivary stress biomarkers is proposed. Using the Trier social stress test, heart rate and salivary measurements were obtained from volunteers under varying levels of stress induction. Measurements of salivary alpha-amylase and cortisol were used as objective measures of stress, and were correlated with the HRV features using fuzzy ARTMAP (FAM). In improving the predictive ability of the ARTMAPs, techniques, such as genetic algorithms for parameter optimization and voting ensembles, were employed. The ensemble of FAMs can be used for predicting stress responses of salivary alpha-amylase or cortisol using heart rate measurements as the input. Using alpha-amylase as the stress indicator, the ensemble was able to classify stress from heart rate features with 75% accuracy, and 80% accuracy when cortisol was used.

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