Mental workload assessment leaderboard

WESAD: AUROC

7 reported results for mental workload assessment on WESAD, ranked by AUROC. Top reported: Cross-Modal Correlation Fusion for End-to-End EC (0.9729). Every row…

This page ranks every result ChatPPG has recorded for mental workload assessment on WESAD, measured by Area under ROC (higher is better). Each number is copied from the publication cited in its row, and ranks apply only within this dataset and metric.

Mental workload / stress: WESAD, Area under ROC. Reported rankings; evaluation protocols may differ.
RankMethod & evaluationArea under ROC↑ Higher is better
1Cross-Modal Correlation Fusion for End-to-End EC

Cross-Modal Correlation Fusion for End-to-End ECG–PPG Stress Classification

Evaluation details

WESAD subject-independent 5-fold CV; dual ECG+PPG encoders + cross-modal correlation fusion; paper AUC-ROC 97.29%

Reported as of: 2026-10-02

0.9729
2Pulse-PPG
Evaluation details

Binary stress; paper non-stress definition

Weights: true (MIT)

0.9687
3Thapa wrist-PPG features

Thapa wrist-PPG features (LR, all features; Stage 2 exploratory)

Evaluation details

LOSO pooled AUC, BVP 64 Hz 60 s windows, stress from 9 subjects; post hoc; interval-only 0.911–0.933; RF 0.972 transductive z-scoring (not ranked)

Weights: n/a (no code)

0.965
4TEX-MEX 0.56M

TEX-MEX 0.56M (linear probe)

Evaluation details

Binary stress, subject-level 5-fold CV × 15 seeds (arXiv 2610.19557 Table 4); same-paper Pulse-PPG 0.9388 / AnyPPG 0.9520 — different protocol from Pulse-PPG paper row

Weights: false (promised)

0.9630
5Quality-aware PPG+ACC

Quality-aware PPG+ACC (Zenodo 22858828)

Evaluation details

LOSO 15 subj, 60-s windows, baseline vs stress; low-tier venue; selective prediction improves accepted-window F1

0.956
6Calibrated photoplethysmography-derived heart ra

Calibrated photoplethysmography-derived heart rate variability approximates electrocardiographic gold-standard performance for stress-state classification

Evaluation details

binary stress; classical ML on HRV features; PPG features linearly calibrated to ECG space (uncalibrated PPG 0.79; ECG 0.85); 15 subjects

Reported as of: 2026-10-05

0.85
7PaPaGei-S

PaPaGei-S (re-eval)

Evaluation details

Under Pulse-PPG protocol

Weights: true (BSD-3)

0.8043

Rows are ranked only within this task × dataset × metric. Protocols can differ; read each method's evaluation details before comparing. Latest reported row: 2026-10-05.

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APA

ChatPPG. (2026). WESAD AUROC leaderboard: mental workload assessment [Data set]. ChatPPG Research Hub. https://chatppg.com/research/leaderboards/mwl/wesad-auroc

BibTeX
@misc{chatppg_mwl_wesad_auroc,
  author       = {{ChatPPG}},
  title        = {{WESAD AUROC leaderboard: mental workload assessment}},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = oct,
  howpublished = {\url{https://chatppg.com/research/leaderboards/mwl/wesad-auroc}},
  note         = {ChatPPG Research Hub}
}
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title: "WESAD AUROC leaderboard: mental workload assessment"
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url: "https://chatppg.com/research/leaderboards/mwl/wesad-auroc"
date-released: "2026-10-16"