Mild Dehydration Identification Using Machine Learning to Assess Autonomic Responses to Cognitive Stress.

Journal: Nutrients
PMID: 31877912

Abstract

The feasibility of detecting mild dehydration by using autonomic responses to cognitive stress was studied. To induce cognitive stress, subjects ( = 17) performed the Stroop task, which comprised four minutes of rest and four minutes of test. Nine indices of autonomic control based on electrodermal activity (EDA) and pulse rate variability (PRV) were obtained during both the rest and test stages of the Stroop task. Measurements were taken on three consecutive days in which subjects were "wet" (not dehydrated) and "dry" (experiencing mild dehydration caused by fluid restriction). Nine approaches were tested for classification of "wet" and "dry" conditions: (1) linear (LDA) and (2) quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA), (3) logistic regression, (4) support vector machines (SVM) with cubic, (5) fine Gaussian kernel, (6) medium Gaussian kernel, (7) a k-nearest neighbor (KNN) classifier, (8) decision trees, and (9) subspace ensemble of KNN classifiers (SE-KNN). The classification models were tested for all possible combinations of the nine indices of autonomic nervous system control, and their performance was assessed by using leave-one-subject-out cross-validation. An overall accuracy of mild dehydration detection was 91.2% when using the cubic SE-KNN and indices obtained only at rest, and the accuracy was 91.2% when using the cubic SVM classifiers and indices obtained only at test. Accuracy was 86.8% when rest-to-test increments in the autonomic indices were used along with the KNN and QDA classifiers. In summary, measures of autonomic function based on EDA and PRV are suitable for detecting mild dehydration and could potentially be used for the noninvasive testing of dehydration.

Authors

  • Hugo F Posada-Quintero
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
  • Natasa Reljin
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America.
  • Aurelie Moutran
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
  • Dimitrios Georgopalis
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
  • Elaine Choung-Hee Lee
    Department of Kinesiology, Human Performance Laboratory, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
  • Gabrielle E W Giersch
    Department of Kinesiology, Human Performance Laboratory, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
  • Douglas J Casa
    Department of Kinesiology, Human Performance Laboratory, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
  • Ki H Chon
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America.

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