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A pilot study of the Earable device to measure facial muscle and eye movement tasks among healthy volunteers
The Earable device is a behind-the-ear wearable originally developed to measure cognitive function. Since Earable measures electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EMG), and electrooculography (EOG), it may also have the potential to objectively quantify facial muscle and eye movement activit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9931353/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36812552 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000061 |
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author | Wipperman, Matthew F. Pogoncheff, Galen Mateo, Katrina F. Wu, Xuefang Chen, Yiziying Levy, Oren Avbersek, Andreja Deterding, Robin R. Hamon, Sara C. Vu, Tam Alaj, Rinol Harari, Olivier |
author_facet | Wipperman, Matthew F. Pogoncheff, Galen Mateo, Katrina F. Wu, Xuefang Chen, Yiziying Levy, Oren Avbersek, Andreja Deterding, Robin R. Hamon, Sara C. Vu, Tam Alaj, Rinol Harari, Olivier |
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description | The Earable device is a behind-the-ear wearable originally developed to measure cognitive function. Since Earable measures electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EMG), and electrooculography (EOG), it may also have the potential to objectively quantify facial muscle and eye movement activities relevant in the assessment of neuromuscular disorders. As an initial step to developing a digital assessment in neuromuscular disorders, a pilot study was conducted to determine whether the Earable device could be utilized to objectively measure facial muscle and eye movements intended to be representative of Performance Outcome Assessments, (PerfOs) with tasks designed to model clinical PerfOs, referred to as mock-PerfO activities. The specific aims of this study were: To determine whether the Earable raw EMG, EOG, and EEG signals could be processed to extract features describing these waveforms; To determine Earable feature data quality, test re-test reliability, and statistical properties; To determine whether features derived from Earable could be used to determine the difference between various facial muscle and eye movement activities; and, To determine what features and feature types are important for mock-PerfO activity level classification. A total of N = 10 healthy volunteers participated in the study. Each study participant performed 16 mock-PerfOs activities, including talking, chewing, swallowing, eye closure, gazing in different directions, puffing cheeks, chewing an apple, and making various facial expressions. Each activity was repeated four times in the morning and four times at night. A total of 161 summary features were extracted from the EEG, EMG, and EOG bio-sensor data. Feature vectors were used as input to machine learning models to classify the mock-PerfO activities, and model performance was evaluated on a held-out test set. Additionally, a convolutional neural network (CNN) was used to classify low-level representations of the raw bio-sensor data for each task, and model performance was correspondingly evaluated and compared directly to feature classification performance. The model’s prediction accuracy on the Earable device’s classification ability was quantitatively assessed. Study results indicate that Earable can potentially quantify different aspects of facial and eye movements and may be used to differentiate mock-PerfO activities. Specially, Earable was found to differentiate talking, chewing, and swallowing tasks from other tasks with observed F1 scores >0.9. While EMG features contribute to classification accuracy for all tasks, EOG features are important for classifying gaze tasks. Finally, we found that analysis with summary features outperformed a CNN for activity classification. We believe Earable may be used to measure cranial muscle activity relevant for neuromuscular disorder assessment. Classification performance of mock-PerfO activities with summary features enables a strategy for detecting disease-specific signals relative to controls, as well as the monitoring of intra-subject treatment responses. Further testing is needed to evaluate the Earable device in clinical populations and clinical development settings. |
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spelling | pubmed-99313532023-02-16 A pilot study of the Earable device to measure facial muscle and eye movement tasks among healthy volunteers Wipperman, Matthew F. Pogoncheff, Galen Mateo, Katrina F. Wu, Xuefang Chen, Yiziying Levy, Oren Avbersek, Andreja Deterding, Robin R. Hamon, Sara C. Vu, Tam Alaj, Rinol Harari, Olivier PLOS Digit Health Research Article The Earable device is a behind-the-ear wearable originally developed to measure cognitive function. Since Earable measures electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EMG), and electrooculography (EOG), it may also have the potential to objectively quantify facial muscle and eye movement activities relevant in the assessment of neuromuscular disorders. As an initial step to developing a digital assessment in neuromuscular disorders, a pilot study was conducted to determine whether the Earable device could be utilized to objectively measure facial muscle and eye movements intended to be representative of Performance Outcome Assessments, (PerfOs) with tasks designed to model clinical PerfOs, referred to as mock-PerfO activities. The specific aims of this study were: To determine whether the Earable raw EMG, EOG, and EEG signals could be processed to extract features describing these waveforms; To determine Earable feature data quality, test re-test reliability, and statistical properties; To determine whether features derived from Earable could be used to determine the difference between various facial muscle and eye movement activities; and, To determine what features and feature types are important for mock-PerfO activity level classification. A total of N = 10 healthy volunteers participated in the study. Each study participant performed 16 mock-PerfOs activities, including talking, chewing, swallowing, eye closure, gazing in different directions, puffing cheeks, chewing an apple, and making various facial expressions. Each activity was repeated four times in the morning and four times at night. A total of 161 summary features were extracted from the EEG, EMG, and EOG bio-sensor data. Feature vectors were used as input to machine learning models to classify the mock-PerfO activities, and model performance was evaluated on a held-out test set. Additionally, a convolutional neural network (CNN) was used to classify low-level representations of the raw bio-sensor data for each task, and model performance was correspondingly evaluated and compared directly to feature classification performance. The model’s prediction accuracy on the Earable device’s classification ability was quantitatively assessed. Study results indicate that Earable can potentially quantify different aspects of facial and eye movements and may be used to differentiate mock-PerfO activities. Specially, Earable was found to differentiate talking, chewing, and swallowing tasks from other tasks with observed F1 scores >0.9. While EMG features contribute to classification accuracy for all tasks, EOG features are important for classifying gaze tasks. Finally, we found that analysis with summary features outperformed a CNN for activity classification. We believe Earable may be used to measure cranial muscle activity relevant for neuromuscular disorder assessment. Classification performance of mock-PerfO activities with summary features enables a strategy for detecting disease-specific signals relative to controls, as well as the monitoring of intra-subject treatment responses. Further testing is needed to evaluate the Earable device in clinical populations and clinical development settings. Public Library of Science 2022-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9931353/ /pubmed/36812552 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000061 Text en © 2022 Wipperman et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wipperman, Matthew F. Pogoncheff, Galen Mateo, Katrina F. Wu, Xuefang Chen, Yiziying Levy, Oren Avbersek, Andreja Deterding, Robin R. Hamon, Sara C. Vu, Tam Alaj, Rinol Harari, Olivier A pilot study of the Earable device to measure facial muscle and eye movement tasks among healthy volunteers |
title | A pilot study of the Earable device to measure facial muscle and eye movement tasks among healthy volunteers |
title_full | A pilot study of the Earable device to measure facial muscle and eye movement tasks among healthy volunteers |
title_fullStr | A pilot study of the Earable device to measure facial muscle and eye movement tasks among healthy volunteers |
title_full_unstemmed | A pilot study of the Earable device to measure facial muscle and eye movement tasks among healthy volunteers |
title_short | A pilot study of the Earable device to measure facial muscle and eye movement tasks among healthy volunteers |
title_sort | pilot study of the earable device to measure facial muscle and eye movement tasks among healthy volunteers |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9931353/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36812552 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000061 |
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