Near-infrared spectroscopy assessment of divided visual attention task-invoked cerebral hemodynamics during prolonged true driving

Ting Li; Yue Zhao; Yunlong Sun; Yuan Gao; Yu Su; Yiyi Hetian; Min Chen

doi:10.1117/12.2081530

10 March 2015 Near-infrared spectroscopy assessment of divided visual attention task-invoked cerebral hemodynamics during prolonged true driving

Ting Li, Yue Zhao, Yunlong Sun, Yuan Gao, Yu Su, Yiyi Hetian, Min Chen

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Proceedings Volume 9305, Optical Techniques in Neurosurgery, Neurophotonics, and Optogenetics II; 93052I (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081530
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Driver fatigue is one of the leading causes of traffic accidents. It is imperative to develop a technique to monitor fatigue of drivers in real situation. Near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is now capable of measuring brain functional activity noninvasively in terms of hemodynamic responses sensitively, which shed a light to us that it may be possible to detect fatigue-specified brain functional activity signal. We developed a sensitive, portable and absolute-measure fNIRS, and utilized it to monitor cerebral hemodynamics on car drivers during prolonged true driving. An odd-ball protocol was employed to trigger the drivers’ visual divided attention, which is a critical function in safe driving. We found that oxyhemoglobin concentration and blood volume in prefrontal lobe dramatically increased with driving duration (stand for fatigue degree; 2-10 hours), while deoxyhemoglobin concentration increased to the top at 4 hours then decreased slowly. The behavior performance showed clear decrement only after 6 hours. Our study showed the strong potential of fNIRS combined with divided visual attention protocol in driving fatigue degree monitoring. Our findings indicated the fNIRS-measured hemodynamic parameters were more sensitive than behavior performance evaluation.

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Ting Li, Yue Zhao, Yunlong Sun, Yuan Gao, Yu Su, Yiyi Hetian, and Min Chen "Near-infrared spectroscopy assessment of divided visual attention task-invoked cerebral hemodynamics during prolonged true driving", Proc. SPIE 9305, Optical Techniques in Neurosurgery, Neurophotonics, and Optogenetics II, 93052I (10 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081530

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