Eye tracking based dyslexia detection using a holistic approach

Abstract A new detection method for cognitive impairments is presented utilizing an eye tracking signals in a text reading test. This research enhances published articles that extract combination of various features. It does so by processing entire eye-tracking records either in time or frequency wh...

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Autores principales: Boris Nerušil, Jaroslav Polec, Juraj Škunda, Juraj Kačur
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:49cfd8d82d194c6ca096f0c9afd687692021-12-02T16:35:42ZEye tracking based dyslexia detection using a holistic approach10.1038/s41598-021-95275-12045-2322https://doaj.org/article/49cfd8d82d194c6ca096f0c9afd687692021-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95275-1https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract A new detection method for cognitive impairments is presented utilizing an eye tracking signals in a text reading test. This research enhances published articles that extract combination of various features. It does so by processing entire eye-tracking records either in time or frequency whereas applying only basic signal pre-processing. Such signals were classified as a whole by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) that hierarchically extract substantial features scatter either in time or frequency and nonlinearly binds them using machine learning to minimize a detection error. In the experiments we used a 100 fold cross validation and a dataset containing signals of 185 subjects (88 subjects with low risk and 97 subjects with high risk of dyslexia). In a series of experiments it was found that magnitude spectrum based representation of time interpolated eye-tracking signals recorded the best results, i.e. an average accuracy of 96.6% was reached in comparison to 95.6% that is the best published result on the same database. These findings suggest that a holistic approach involving small but complex enough CNNs applied to properly pre-process and expressed signals provides even better results than a combination of meticulously selected well-known features.Boris NerušilJaroslav PolecJuraj ŠkundaJuraj KačurNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)
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Boris Nerušil
Jaroslav Polec
Juraj Škunda
Juraj Kačur
Eye tracking based dyslexia detection using a holistic approach
description Abstract A new detection method for cognitive impairments is presented utilizing an eye tracking signals in a text reading test. This research enhances published articles that extract combination of various features. It does so by processing entire eye-tracking records either in time or frequency whereas applying only basic signal pre-processing. Such signals were classified as a whole by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) that hierarchically extract substantial features scatter either in time or frequency and nonlinearly binds them using machine learning to minimize a detection error. In the experiments we used a 100 fold cross validation and a dataset containing signals of 185 subjects (88 subjects with low risk and 97 subjects with high risk of dyslexia). In a series of experiments it was found that magnitude spectrum based representation of time interpolated eye-tracking signals recorded the best results, i.e. an average accuracy of 96.6% was reached in comparison to 95.6% that is the best published result on the same database. These findings suggest that a holistic approach involving small but complex enough CNNs applied to properly pre-process and expressed signals provides even better results than a combination of meticulously selected well-known features.
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author Boris Nerušil
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title Eye tracking based dyslexia detection using a holistic approach
title_short Eye tracking based dyslexia detection using a holistic approach
title_full Eye tracking based dyslexia detection using a holistic approach
title_fullStr Eye tracking based dyslexia detection using a holistic approach
title_full_unstemmed Eye tracking based dyslexia detection using a holistic approach
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