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. 2021 Feb 25;3:639444. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2021.639444

Table 2.

Data collection methods, their Pros and Cons.

References Modality Pros Cons
Rosenberg et al. (6) Wearable ECG Detect stress with 90% accuracy Less effective during pain and non-stationary situations
Blood et al. (7) Holter ECG Effectively detect depression and HRV Accuracy of results
Molina et al. (8) 12-lead ECG Accurate correlation between HRR and HRV May cause scar
Leti and Bricout (9) Polar RS 800 Detect fatigue and HRV in motion Accuracy of Results
Walker et al. (10) GE Light ECG Effectively analyze Noise exposure and HRV Did not detect correlation between noise and BP
Wang et al. (11) Wearable ECG Discriminate between CHF and NSR with 91.3% acc RMSSD is not accurate
Huang et al. (12) 12-lead ECG Effectively determine HRV due to stroke and hemodialysis LF/HF ratio is not accurate
Pinheiro et al. (13) PTB recorder Determine prognosis of patients following MI Cannot deduce causality behind results
Toni et al. (14) Clickholter ECG Detect HRV in motion due to antidepressants and exercise LF/HF, RR are not accurate
Shi et al. (15) RM6240B ECG Effectively discriminate between HRV of happiness and sadness RMSSD, pNN50 and SampEn are not accurate
Howells et al. (17) MP150 Biopac Accurately analyzed HRV due to meditation and BD wirelessly Results lacked most ECG measures
Rios et al. (18) Gear S, PPG Possibly recognize drowsiness while in motion No results were obtained
Jung et al. (19) ECG sensor Wireless analysis of HRV due to drowsiness and fatigue Accuracy of results
Georgiou et al. (21) ECG,PPG Analyze HRV with 91-99 % accuracy Accuracy reduces during motion
Gontier (22) eMotion Faros Efficiently detect correlation between awareness and HR Did not find robust correlations
Vicente et al. (23) eXim Pro Detect drowsiness while in motion Detect drowsiness with 62% sensitivity
He et al. (24) custom ECG Detect stress using ulta-short epoch Accuracy of classification was not revealed
Schmidt et al. (25) RespiBAN Empatica E4 Detect stress with 93% accuracy May have resulted from overfitting
Cho et al. (26) Biopac PPG EDA,UIM Detect stress with 95% accuracy Not a viable solution in real-life