EFFECTIVENESS FOR A SLEEPINESS TEST OF PUPIL SIZE ESTIMATION DURING BLINK

Minoru Nakayama, Keiko Yamamoto, Fumio Kobayashi

2008

Abstract

Pupillary response has been used for an index of sleepiness, but the validity of the index is not clear. In this paper, the influence of blinks on the Pupillary Unrest Index (PUI) and the Power Spectrum Density (PSD) for the frequency range 0.01 < f < 0.8H z, as indices of pupil’s instability during a sleepiness test, was examined. To estimate pupil size during blink, a procedure for collecting the clinical data was developed using Support Vector Regression (SVR). The values of PUI increased with experimental time, and the values and deviations of PUI for experimental observation were larger than the ones with SVR estimation. The blink time also increased with experimental time, and there were significant correlation relationships between the value of PUI and blink time. The mean PSD also correlated significantly with blink time. The relationship between pupillary indices and a subjective sleepiness index was not significant, as it was not in other previous works. These results provide evidence that pupillary indices were significantly affected by blink, and they did not reflect sleepiness correctly.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nakayama M., Yamamoto K. and Kobayashi F. (2008). EFFECTIVENESS FOR A SLEEPINESS TEST OF PUPIL SIZE ESTIMATION DURING BLINK . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 2: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-18-0, pages 558-564. DOI: 10.5220/0001058105580564

in Bibtex Style

@conference{biosignals08,
author={Minoru Nakayama and Keiko Yamamoto and Fumio Kobayashi},
title={EFFECTIVENESS FOR A SLEEPINESS TEST OF PUPIL SIZE ESTIMATION DURING BLINK},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 2: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={558-564},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001058105580564},
isbn={978-989-8111-18-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 2: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2008)
TI - EFFECTIVENESS FOR A SLEEPINESS TEST OF PUPIL SIZE ESTIMATION DURING BLINK
SN - 978-989-8111-18-0
AU - Nakayama M.
AU - Yamamoto K.
AU - Kobayashi F.
PY - 2008
SP - 558
EP - 564
DO - 10.5220/0001058105580564