%0 Journal Article %@ 14248220 %A Naqvi, S.F. %A Ali, S.S.A. %A Yahya, N. %A Yasin, M.A. %A Hafeez, Y. %A Subhani, A.R. %A Adil, S.H. %A Saggaf, U.M.A. %A Moinuddin, M. %D 2020 %F scholars:12828 %I MDPI AG %J Sensors (Switzerland) %K Computer aided diagnosis; Computer aided instruction; Convolution; Convolutional neural networks, Computer aided diagnosis systems; Mental stress; Off-line processing; Real-time application; Reasonable accuracy; Sliding window-based; State of the art; Stress assessment, Real time systems, article; controlled study; convolutional neural network; diagnostic test accuracy study; feature extraction; human; human experiment; mental stress; sensitivity and specificity; stress assessment %N 16 %P 1-17 %R 10.3390/s20164400 %T Real-time stress assessment using sliding window based convolutional neural network %U https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/12828/ %V 20 %X Mental stress has been identified as a significant cause of several bodily disorders, such as depression, hypertension, neural and cardiovascular abnormalities. Conventional stress assessment methods are highly subjective and tedious and tend to lack accuracy. Machine-learning (ML)-based computer-aided diagnosis systems can be used to assess the mental state with reasonable accuracy, but they require offline processing and feature extraction, rendering them unsuitable for real-time applications. This paper presents a real-time mental stress assessment approach based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The CNN-based approach afforded real-time mental stress assessment with an accuracy as high as 96, the sensitivity of 95, and specificity of 97. The proposed approach is compared with state-of-the-art ML techniques in terms of accuracy, time utilisation, and quality of features. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. %Z cited By 9