Wavelet-based motion artifact removal for electrodermal activity

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2015:2015:6223-6. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319814.

Abstract

Electrodermal activity (EDA) recording is a powerful, widely used tool for monitoring psychological or physiological arousal. However, analysis of EDA is hampered by its sensitivity to motion artifacts. We propose a method for removing motion artifacts from EDA, measured as skin conductance (SC), using a stationary wavelet transform (SWT). We modeled the wavelet coefficients as a Gaussian mixture distribution corresponding to the underlying skin conductance level (SCL) and skin conductance responses (SCRs). The goodness-of-fit of the model was validated on ambulatory SC data. We evaluated the proposed method in comparison with three previous approaches. Our method achieved a greater reduction of artifacts while retaining motion-artifact-free data.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Artifacts
  • Galvanic Skin Response / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Motion
  • Normal Distribution
  • Wavelet Analysis