Automatic Detection of Cognitive Impairment with Virtual Reality

Mannan, Farzana A, Porffy, Lilla A, Joyce, Dan W ORCID: 0000-0002-9433-5340, Shergill, Sukhwinder S and Celiktutan, Oya (2023) Automatic Detection of Cognitive Impairment with Virtual Reality. SENSORS, 23 (2). 1026-.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23021026

Abstract

Cognitive impairment features in neuropsychiatric conditions and when undiagnosed can have a severe impact on the affected individual's safety and ability to perform daily tasks. Virtual Reality (VR) systems are increasingly being explored for the recognition, diagnosis and treatment of cognitive impairment. In this paper, we describe novel VR-derived measures of cognitive performance and show their correspondence with clinically-validated cognitive performance measures. We use an immersive VR environment called VStore where participants complete a simulated supermarket shopping task. People with psychosis (k=26) and non-patient controls (k=128) participated in the study, spanning ages 20-79 years. The individuals were split into two cohorts, a homogeneous non-patient cohort (k=99 non-patient participants) and a heterogeneous cohort (k=26 patients, k=29 non-patient participants). Participants' spatio-temporal behaviour in VStore is used to extract four features, namely, route optimality score, proportional distance score, execution error score, and hesitation score using the Traveling Salesman Problem and explore-exploit decision mathematics. These extracted features are mapped to seven validated cognitive performance scores, via linear regression models. The most statistically important feature is found to be the hesitation score. When combined with the remaining extracted features, the multiple linear regression model resulted in statistically significant results with R2 = 0.369, F-Stat = 7.158, p(F-Stat) = 0.000128.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	feature engineering, linear regression, statistical learning, psychosis, cognitive assessment, virtual reality
Divisions:	Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Population Health
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	13 Jun 2023 15:00
Last Modified:	13 Jun 2023 15:00
DOI:	10.3390/s23021026
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3170962