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Design and Validation of a Multimodal Wearable Device for Simultaneous Collection of Electrocardiogram, Electromyogram, and Electrodermal Activity

Bio-signals are being increasingly used for the assessment of pathophysiological conditions including pain, stress, fatigue, and anxiety. For some approaches, a single signal is not sufficient to provide a comprehensive diagnosis; however, there is a growing consensus that multimodal approaches allo...

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Autores principales: McNaboe, Riley, Beardslee, Luke, Kong, Youngsun, Smith, Brittany N., Chen, I-Ping, Posada-Quintero, Hugo F., Chon, Ki H.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9695854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36433449
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22228851
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author McNaboe, Riley
Beardslee, Luke
Kong, Youngsun
Smith, Brittany N.
Chen, I-Ping
Posada-Quintero, Hugo F.
Chon, Ki H.
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description Bio-signals are being increasingly used for the assessment of pathophysiological conditions including pain, stress, fatigue, and anxiety. For some approaches, a single signal is not sufficient to provide a comprehensive diagnosis; however, there is a growing consensus that multimodal approaches allow higher sensitivity and specificity. For instance, in visceral pain subjects, the autonomic activation can be inferred using electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate variability derived from the electrocardiogram (ECG), but including the muscle activation detected from the surface electromyogram (sEMG) can better differentiate the disease that causes the pain. There is no wearable device commercially capable of collecting these three signals simultaneously. This paper presents the validation of a novel multimodal low profile wearable data acquisition device for the simultaneous collection of EDA, ECG, and sEMG signals. The device was validated by comparing its performance to laboratory-scale reference devices. N = 20 healthy subjects were recruited to participate in a four-stage study that exposed them to an array of cognitive, orthostatic, and muscular stimuli, ensuring the device is sensitive to a range of stressors. Time and frequency domain analyses for all three signals showed significant similarities between our device and the reference devices. Correlation of sEMG metrics ranged from 0.81 to 0.95 and EDA/ECG metrics showed few instances of significant difference in trends between our device and the references. With only minor observed differences, we demonstrated the ability of our device to collect EDA, sEMG, and ECG signals. This device will enable future practical and impactful advances in the field of chronic pain and stress measurement and can confidently be implemented in related studies.
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spelling pubmed-96958542022-11-26 Design and Validation of a Multimodal Wearable Device for Simultaneous Collection of Electrocardiogram, Electromyogram, and Electrodermal Activity McNaboe, Riley Beardslee, Luke Kong, Youngsun Smith, Brittany N. Chen, I-Ping Posada-Quintero, Hugo F. Chon, Ki H. Sensors (Basel) Article Bio-signals are being increasingly used for the assessment of pathophysiological conditions including pain, stress, fatigue, and anxiety. For some approaches, a single signal is not sufficient to provide a comprehensive diagnosis; however, there is a growing consensus that multimodal approaches allow higher sensitivity and specificity. For instance, in visceral pain subjects, the autonomic activation can be inferred using electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate variability derived from the electrocardiogram (ECG), but including the muscle activation detected from the surface electromyogram (sEMG) can better differentiate the disease that causes the pain. There is no wearable device commercially capable of collecting these three signals simultaneously. This paper presents the validation of a novel multimodal low profile wearable data acquisition device for the simultaneous collection of EDA, ECG, and sEMG signals. The device was validated by comparing its performance to laboratory-scale reference devices. N = 20 healthy subjects were recruited to participate in a four-stage study that exposed them to an array of cognitive, orthostatic, and muscular stimuli, ensuring the device is sensitive to a range of stressors. Time and frequency domain analyses for all three signals showed significant similarities between our device and the reference devices. Correlation of sEMG metrics ranged from 0.81 to 0.95 and EDA/ECG metrics showed few instances of significant difference in trends between our device and the references. With only minor observed differences, we demonstrated the ability of our device to collect EDA, sEMG, and ECG signals. This device will enable future practical and impactful advances in the field of chronic pain and stress measurement and can confidently be implemented in related studies. MDPI 2022-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9695854/ /pubmed/36433449 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22228851 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Design and Validation of a Multimodal Wearable Device for Simultaneous Collection of Electrocardiogram, Electromyogram, and Electrodermal Activity
title Design and Validation of a Multimodal Wearable Device for Simultaneous Collection of Electrocardiogram, Electromyogram, and Electrodermal Activity
title_full Design and Validation of a Multimodal Wearable Device for Simultaneous Collection of Electrocardiogram, Electromyogram, and Electrodermal Activity
title_fullStr Design and Validation of a Multimodal Wearable Device for Simultaneous Collection of Electrocardiogram, Electromyogram, and Electrodermal Activity
title_full_unstemmed Design and Validation of a Multimodal Wearable Device for Simultaneous Collection of Electrocardiogram, Electromyogram, and Electrodermal Activity
title_short Design and Validation of a Multimodal Wearable Device for Simultaneous Collection of Electrocardiogram, Electromyogram, and Electrodermal Activity
title_sort design and validation of a multimodal wearable device for simultaneous collection of electrocardiogram, electromyogram, and electrodermal activity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9695854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36433449
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22228851
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