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Sleep Staging Framework with Physiologically Harmonized Sub-Networks

Journal

METHODS
Volume 209, Issue -, Pages 18-28

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ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2022.11.003

Keywords

Sleep stage scoring; Mixed neural network; EEG; Half -precision training

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Sleep screening is an important tool in healthcare and neuroscience research. Automatic sleep scoring using deep neural networks shows promising results, but lacks the medical criterion for consistent performance. This paper proposes a framework for sleep stage scoring that captures stage-specific features satisfying sleep medicine criteria. The framework includes feature extraction networks and an attention-based scoring decision network. The proposed method achieves competitive stage scoring performance, especially for Wake, N2, and N3 stages.
Sleep screening is an important tool for both healthcare and neuroscientific research. Automatic sleep scoring is an alternative to the time-consuming gold-standard manual scoring procedure. Recently there have seen promising results on automatic stage scoring by extracting spatio-temporal features via deep neural networks from electroencephalogram (EEG). However, such methods fail to consistently yield good performance due to a missing piece in data representation: the medical criterion of the sleep scoring task on top of EEG features. We argue that capturing stage-specific features that satisfy the criterion of sleep medicine is non-trivial for automatic sleep scoring. This paper considers two criteria: Transient stage marker and Overall profile of EEG features, then we propose a physiologically meaningful framework for sleep stage scoring via mixed deep neural networks. The framework consists of two sub-networks: feature extraction networks, constructed in consideration of the physiological characteristics of sleep, and an attention-based scoring decision network. Moreover, we quantize the framework for potential use under an IoT setting. For proof-of-concept, the performance of the proposed framework is demonstrated by introducing multiple sleep datasets with the largest comprising 42,560 h recorded from 5,793 subjects. From the experiment results, the proposed method achieves a competitive stage scoring performance, especially for Wake, N2, and N3, with higher F1 scores of 0.92, 0.86, and 0.88, respectively. Moreover, the feasibility analysis of framework quantization provides a potential for future implementation in the edge computing field and clinical settings.

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