An Efficient AP-ANN-Based Multimethod Fusion Model to Detect Stress through EEG Signal Analysis

Stress is a universal emotion that every human experiences daily. Psychologists say stress may lead to heart attack, depression, hypertension, strokes, or even sudden death. Many technical explorations like stress detection through facial expression, speech, text, physical behaviors, etc., were explored, but no consensus has been reached on the best method. The advancement in biomedical engineering yielded a rapid development of electroencephalogram (EEG) signal analysis that has inspired the idea of a multimethod fusion approach for the first time which employs multiple techniques such as discrete wavelet transform (DWT) for de-noising, adaptive synthetic sampling (ADASYN) for class balancing, and affinity propagation (AP) as a stratified sampling model along with the artificial neural network (ANN) as the classifier model for human emotion classification. From the EEG recordings of the DEAP dataset, the artifacts are removed, the signal is decomposed using a DWT, and features are extracted and fused to form the feature vector. As the dataset is high-dimensional, feature selection is done and ADASYN is used to address the imbalance of classes resulting in large-scale data. The innovative idea of the proposed system is to perform sampling using affinity propagation as a stratified sampling-based clustering algorithm as it determines the number of representative samples automatically which makes it superior to the K-Means, K-Medoid, that requires the K-value. Those samples are used as inputs to various classification models, the comparison of the AP-ANN, AP-SVM, and AP-RF is done, and their most important five performance metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and specificity were compared. From our experiment, the AP-ANN model provides better accuracy of 86.8% and greater precision of 85.7%, a higher F1 score of 84.9%, a recall rate of 84.1%, and a specificity value of 89.2% which altogether provides better results than the other existing algorithms.