Key result
Facial StO2 mapping distinguishes emotional from physical stress with ~96% accuracy.
Why the study?
Emotional and physical stress can cause various health problems, leading investigators to evaluate tissue blood oxygen saturation (StO2) to classify human stress.
Does facial tissue blood oxygen saturation (StO2) accurately classify emotional and physical stress in healthy adults?
Cross-Sectional (n=42)
No
Does facial tissue blood oxygen saturation (StO2) accurately classify emotional and physical stress in healthy adults?
Facial StO2 measured via non-contact hyperspectral imaging is a highly accurate physiological marker for distinguishing between emotional and physical stress.
Facial StO2 may aid stress classification in healthy adults; leaves open validation in patients and prospective outcomes.
Emotional and physical stress can cause various health problems. In this paper, we used tissue blood oxygen saturation (StO2), a newly proposed physiological signal, to classify the human stress. We firstly constructed a public StO2 database including 42 volunteers subjected to two types of stress. During the physical stress experiment, we observed that the facial StO2 right after the stress can be either increased or decreased comparing to the baseline. We investigated the StO2 feature combinations for the classification and found that the average StO2 values from left cheek, chin, and the middle of the eyebrow can provide the highest classification rate of 95.56%. Comparison with other stress classification method shows that StO2 based method can provide best classification performance with lowest feature dimension. These results suggest that facial StO2 can be used as a promising features to identify stress states, including emotional and physical stress.
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Liu et al. (2020) conducted a cross-sectional in Healthy volunteers (n=42). Emotional and physical stress vs. Baseline state was evaluated on Classification rate of emotional vs physical stress. Average StO2 values from the left cheek, chin, and middle of the eyebrow provided a 95.56% accuracy in classifying emotional versus physical stress.
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