Driver fatigue detection through multiple entropy fusion analysis in an EEG-based system

PLoS One. 2017 Dec 8;12(12):e0188756. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188756. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

Driver fatigue is an important contributor to road accidents, and fatigue detection has major implications for transportation safety. The aim of this research is to analyze the multiple entropy fusion method and evaluate several channel regions to effectively detect a driver's fatigue state based on electroencephalogram (EEG) records. First, we fused multiple entropies, i.e., spectral entropy, approximate entropy, sample entropy and fuzzy entropy, as features compared with autoregressive (AR) modeling by four classifiers. Second, we captured four significant channel regions according to weight-based electrodes via a simplified channel selection method. Finally, the evaluation model for detecting driver fatigue was established with four classifiers based on the EEG data from four channel regions. Twelve healthy subjects performed continuous simulated driving for 1-2 hours with EEG monitoring on a static simulator. The leave-one-out cross-validation approach obtained an accuracy of 98.3%, a sensitivity of 98.3% and a specificity of 98.2%. The experimental results verified the effectiveness of the proposed method, indicating that the multiple entropy fusion features are significant factors for inferring the fatigue state of a driver.

MeSH terms

  • Accidents, Traffic
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Automobile Driving*
  • Electroencephalography / methods*
  • Fatigue / diagnosis*
  • Fatigue / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Young Adult

Grants and funding

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61762045), Project of Department of Science and Technology, Jiangxi Province (20171BAB202031), Project of Department of Education, Jiangxi Province (GJJ151146 and GJJ161143), Project of Nanchang Science and Technology Program (No. 113), and Project of Natural Science Research, Jiangxi University of Technology (ZR15QN01). Patent transformation Project of Intellectual Property Office of Jiangxi Province [The application and popularization of the digital method to distinguish the direction of rotation photoelectric encoder in identification].