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IEEE ACCESS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages 143250-143262Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2944965
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Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS); modified Beer-Lambert law (MBLL); mental workload (MWL); emotion; prefrontal cortex (PFC); support vector machine (SVM); neuroergonomics
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- School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (SMME), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan
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Optical-neuro-imaging based functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) has been in use for several years in the fields of brain research to measure the functional response of brain activity and apply it in fields such as Neuro-rehabilitation, Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) and Neuroergonomics. In this paper we have enhanced the classication accuracy of a Mental workload task using a novel Fixed-Value Modified Beer-Lambert law (FV-MBLL) method. The hemodynamic changes corresponding to mental workload are measured from the Prefrontal Cortex (PFC) using fNIRS. The concentration changes of oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin (Delta c(HbO) (t) / and Delta c(HbR) (t) /) of 20 participants are recorded for mental workload and rest. The statistical analysis shows that data obtained from fNIRS is statistically significant with p < 0.0001 and t-values > 1.97 at confidence level of 0.95. The Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier is used to discriminate mental math (coding) task from rest. Four features, namely mean, peak, slope and variance, are calculated on data processed through two different variants of Beer-lambert Law i.e., MBLL and FV-MBLL for tissue blood flow. The optimal combination of the mean and peak values classified by SVM yielded the highest accuracy, 75%. This accuracy is further enhanced using the same feature combination, to 94% when those features are calculated using the novel algorithm FV-MBLL (with its optical density modelled form the first 4 sec stimulus data). The proposed technique can be effectively used with greater accuracies in the application of fNIRS for functional brain imaging and Brain-Machine Interface.
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