Frontiers in Digital Health (Jan 2025)

Building an open-source community to enhance autonomic nervous system signal analysis: DBDP-autonomic

  • Jessilyn Dunn,
  • Varun Mishra,
  • Md Mobashir Hasan Shandhi,
  • Hayoung Jeong,
  • Natasha Yamane,
  • Yuna Watanabe,
  • Bill Chen,
  • Matthew S. Goodwin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2024.1467424
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6

Abstract

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Smartphones and wearable sensors offer an unprecedented ability to collect peripheral psychophysiological signals across diverse timescales, settings, populations, and modalities. However, open-source software development has yet to keep pace with rapid advancements in hardware technology and availability, creating an analytical barrier that limits the scientific usefulness of acquired data. We propose a community-driven, open-source peripheral psychophysiological signal pre-processing and analysis software framework that could advance biobehavioral health by enabling more robust, transparent, and reproducible inferences involving autonomic nervous system data.

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