Lorenzo Palushi
Signal Processing and Machine Learning Approaches for frontal EEG-Based Mental Workload Assessment: From Protocol Design to Classification.
Rel. Danilo Demarchi, Marco Pogliano. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2025
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Abstract
Mental workload has become an important research topic, as increasing demands on multitasking and decision-making can impair performance and compromise safety in domains such as aviation, surgery, and driving. Understanding when and how workload arises enables the design of adaptive systems that monitor cognitive state and automate specific actions, improving safety and reducing fatigue. To investigate cognitive variations, psychophysiological measures such as ECG, respiration, electrodermal activity, and eye tracking are often used. In this work, frontal EEG was selected as the main modality, since brain electrical activity directly reflects cognitive processing. Eight frontal electrodes were used to minimize intrusiveness and simplify sensor placement.
This thesis aimed to design an experimental protocol capable of eliciting distinct workload levels and to extract four feature groups (temporal, spectral, coherence, and entropy/non-linear) from the processed EEG, which were then used to train machine learning classifiers for automatic workload recognition
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