Wearable EDA Quality Model improves SOTA
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Electrodermal activity (EDA) is a key indicator of sympathetic nervous system activation and a reliable marker of emotional arousal or stress. However, motion artifacts and connectivity issues often degrade EDA signal quality. To enable meaningful interpretation, it is essential to distinguish between high- and low-quality EDA signals. We propose an EDA signal quality index system leveraging unsupervised pre-training—a strategy widely used in natural language processing models such as GPT. Our approach achieve approximately $8\%$ in ROCAUC improvement compared to SOTA, while requiring only half the training epochs. This demonstrates that even with limited labeled data and a lightweight model, pre-training can significantly enhance EDA quality assessment, making it practical for real-time, wearable health applications.