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MEDICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTING
Volume 40, Issue 1, Pages 105-113Publisher
PETER PEREGRINUS LTD
DOI: 10.1007/BF02347703
Keywords
sleep analysis; pattern recognition; sleep-waking states; sleep-waking classification; fuzzy sets; polysomnography
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- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [R01HD033487] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NICHD NIH HHS [HD 33487] Funding Source: Medline
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A robust, automated pattern recognition system for polysomnography data targeted to the sleep-waking state and stage identification is presented. Five patterns were searched for. slow-delta and theta wave predominance in the background electro-encephalogram (EEG) activity, presence of sleep spindles in the EEG, presence of rapid eye movements in an electro-oculogram; and presence of muscle tone in an electromyogram. The performance of the automated system was measured indirectly by evaluating sleep staging, based on the experts' accepted methodology, to relate the detected patterns in infants over four months of post-term age. The set of sleep-waking classes included wakefulness, REM sleep and non-REM sleep stages I, II, and III-IV. Several noise and artifact rejection methods were implemented, including filters, fuzzy quality indices, windows of variable sizes and detectors of limb movements and wakefulness. Eleven polysomnographic recordings of healthy infants were studied. The ages of the subjects ranged from 6 to 13 months old. Six recordings counting 2665 epochs were included in the training set. Results on a test set (2369 epochs from five recordings) show an overall agreement of 87.7% (kappa 0.840) between the automated system and the human expert. These results show significant improvements compared with previous work.
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