Abstract:Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a prevalent condition that remains difficult to diagnose in its early stages. Oculomotor dysfunction is a well-established marker of mTBI, motivating the development of portable tools that capture both eye-movement behavior and underlying neurophysiology. In this work, we present an initial framework that integrates electroencephalogram (EEG) with augmented-reality (AR)-based Vestibular/Ocular Motor Screening (VOMS) tasks to estimate subject-specific ocular response times. Pre-processed EEG signals, obtained through band-pass filtering and average referencing, are analyzed using a Redundant Discrete Wavelet Transform (RDWT)-driven deep neural framework. The RDWT coefficients are subjected to trainable zero-phase convolutional filtering and reconstructed into the time domain via inverse RDWT, followed by channel-wise temporal and spatial filtering using 2D convolution layers and convolutional-LSTM-based decoding. An ablation study demonstrates that wavelet-domain filtering serves as an effective denoising strategy, improving prediction performance. Sliding-window predictions were validated using Pearson correlation (>= 0.5), and Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) was subsequently used to estimate ocular response times. DTW-derived metrics revealed significant inter-subject differences across all VOM tasks, supported by Mann-Whitney U tests. Cross-correlation analysis further revealed task-dependent temporal behaviors: pursuit tasks exhibited reactive tracking, whereas saccades showed anticipatory responses. Overall, the results highlight pursuit tasks as particularly informative for distinguishing timing differences and demonstrate the potential of RDWT-based EEG features combined with DTW metrics for multimodal mTBI assessment.
| Comments: | Submitted to IEEE SMC 2026 (under review) |
| Subjects: | Signal Processing (eess.SP); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.14883 [eess.SP] |
| (or arXiv:2605.14883v1 [eess.SP] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.14883 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
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From: Shantanu Sarkar [view email]
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