scholarly journals A Comparison Study on Multidomain EEG Features for Sleep Stage Classification

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Bei Wang ◽  
Jin Jing ◽  
Jian Zhang ◽  
Junzhong Zou ◽  
...  

Feature extraction from physiological signals of EEG (electroencephalogram) is an essential part for sleep staging. In this study, multidomain feature extraction was investigated based on time domain analysis, nonlinear analysis, and frequency domain analysis. Unlike the traditional feature calculation in time domain, a sequence merging method was developed as a preprocessing procedure. The objective is to eliminate the clutter waveform and highlight the characteristic waveform for further analysis. The numbers of the characteristic activities were extracted as the features from time domain. The contributions of features from different domains to the sleep stages were compared. The effectiveness was further analyzed by automatic sleep stage classification and compared with the visual inspection. The overnight clinical sleep EEG recordings of 3 patients after the treatment of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) were tested. The obtained results showed that the developed method can highlight the characteristic activity which is useful for both automatic sleep staging and visual inspection. Furthermore, it can be a training tool for better understanding the appearance of characteristic waveforms from raw sleep EEG which is mixed and complex in time domain.

Author(s):  
Asma Salamatian ◽  
Ali Khadem

Purpose: Sleep is one of the necessities of the body, such as eating, drinking, etc., that affects different aspects of human life. Sleep monitoring and sleep stage classification play an important role in the diagnosis of sleeprelated diseases and neurological disorders. Empirically, classification of sleep stages is a time-consuming, tedious, and complex task, which heavily depends on the experience of the experts. As a result, there is a crucial need for an automatic efficient sleep staging system. Materials and Methods: This study develops a 13-layer 1D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) using singlechannel Electroencephalogram (EEG) signal for extracting features automatically and classifying the sleep stages. To overcome the negative effect of an imbalance dataset, we have used the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE). In our study, the single-channel EEG signal is given to a 1D CNN, without any feature extraction/selection processes. This deep network can self-learn the discriminative features from the EEG signal. Results: Applying the proposed method to sleep-EDF dataset resulted in overall accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and Precision of 94.09%, 74.73%, 96.43%, and 71.02%, respectively, for classifying five sleep stages. Using single-channel EEG and providing a network with fewer trainable parameters than most of the available deep learning-based methods are the main advantages of the proposed method. Conclusion: In this study, a 13-layer 1D CNN model was proposed for sleep stage classification. This model has an end-to-end complete architecture and does not require any separate feature extraction/selection and classification stages. Having a low number of network parameters and layers while still having high classification accuracy, is the main advantage of the proposed method over most of the previous deep learning-based approaches.


2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (05) ◽  
pp. 467-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. C. Helland ◽  
A. Gapelyuk ◽  
A. Suhrbier ◽  
M. Riedl ◽  
T. Penzel ◽  
...  

Summary Objectives: Scoring sleep visually based on polysomnography is an important but time-consuming element of sleep medicine. Whereas computer software assists human experts in the assignment of sleep stages to polysomnogram epochs, their performance is usually insufficient. This study evaluates the possibility to fully automatize sleep staging considering the reliability of the sleep stages available from human expert sleep scorers. Methods: We obtain features from EEG, ECG and respiratory signals of polysomnograms from ten healthy subjects. Using the sleep stages provided by three human experts, we evaluate the performance of linear discriminant analysis on the entire polysomnogram and only on epochs where the three experts agree in their sleep stage scoring. Results: We show that in polysomnogram intervals, to which all three scorers assign the same sleep stage, our algorithm achieves 90% accuracy. This high rate of agreement with the human experts is accomplished with only a small set of three frequency features from the EEG. We increase the performance to 93% by including ECG and respiration features. In contrast, on intervals of ambiguous sleep stage, the sleep stage classification obtained from our algorithm, agrees with the human consensus scorer in approximately 61%. Conclusions: These findings suggest that machine classification is highly consistent with human sleep staging and that error in the algorithm’s assignments is rather a problem of lack of well-defined criteria for human experts to judge certain polysomnogram epochs than an insufficiency of computational procedures.


2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (03) ◽  
pp. 1350012 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J. HERRERA ◽  
C. M. FERNANDES ◽  
A. M. MORA ◽  
D. MIGOTINA ◽  
R. LARGO ◽  
...  

This work proposes a methodology for sleep stage classification based on two main approaches: the combination of features extracted from electroencephalogram (EEG) signal by different extraction methods, and the use of stacked sequential learning to incorporate predicted information from nearby sleep stages in the final classifier. The feature extraction methods used in this work include three representative ways of extracting information from EEG signals: Hjorth features, wavelet transformation and symbolic representation. Feature selection was then used to evaluate the relevance of individual features from this set of methods. Stacked sequential learning uses a second-layer classifier to improve the classification by using previous and posterior first-layer predicted stages as additional features providing information to the model. Results show that both approaches enhance the sleep stage classification accuracy rate, thus leading to a closer approximation to the experts' opinion.


Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Xiangwei Zheng ◽  
Xiaochun Yin ◽  
Xuexiao Shao ◽  
Yalin Li ◽  
Xiaomei Yu

Sleep-related diseases seriously affect the life quality of patients. Sleep stage classification (or sleep staging), which studies the human sleep process and classifies the sleep stages, is an important reference to the diagnosis and study of sleep disorders. Many scholars have conducted a series of sleep staging studies, but the correlation between different sleep stages and the accuracy of classification still needs to be improved. Therefore, this paper proposes an automatic sleep stage classification based on EEG. By constructing an improved empirical mode decomposition and K-means experimental model, the concept of “frequency-domain correlation coefficient” is defined. In the process of feature extraction, the feature vector with the best correlation in the time-frequency domain is selected. Extraction and classification of EEG features are realized based on the K-means clustering algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that the classification accuracy is significantly improved, and our proposed algorithm has a positive impact on sleep staging compared with other algorithms.


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Prucnal ◽  
Adam G. Polak

AbstractEEG signal-based sleep stage classification facilitates an initial diagnosis of sleep disorders. The aim of this study was to compare the efficiency of three methods for feature extraction: power spectral density (PSD), discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and empirical mode decomposition (EMD) in the automatic classification of sleep stages by an artificial neural network (ANN). 13650 30-second EEG epochs from the PhysioNet database, representing five sleep stages (W, N1-N3 and REM), were transformed into feature vectors using the aforementioned methods and principal component analysis (PCA). Three feed-forward ANNs with the same optimal structure (12 input neurons, 23 + 22 neurons in two hidden layers and 5 output neurons) were trained using three sets of features, obtained with one of the compared methods each. Calculating PSD from EEG epochs in frequency sub-bands corresponding to the brain waves (81.1% accuracy for the testing set, comparing with 74.2% for DWT and 57.6% for EMD) appeared to be the most effective feature extraction method in the analysed problem.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mera Kartika Delimayanti ◽  
Bedy Purnama ◽  
Ngoc Giang Nguyen ◽  
Mohammad Reza Faisal ◽  
Kunti Robiatul Mahmudah ◽  
...  

Manual classification of sleep stage is a time-consuming but necessary step in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, and its automation has been an area of active study. The previous works have shown that low dimensional fast Fourier transform (FFT) features and many machine learning algorithms have been applied. In this paper, we demonstrate utilization of features extracted from EEG signals via FFT to improve the performance of automated sleep stage classification through machine learning methods. Unlike previous works using FFT, we incorporated thousands of FFT features in order to classify the sleep stages into 2–6 classes. Using the expanded version of Sleep-EDF dataset with 61 recordings, our method outperformed other state-of-the art methods. This result indicates that high dimensional FFT features in combination with a simple feature selection is effective for the improvement of automated sleep stage classification.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarun Paisarnsrisomsuk ◽  
Carolina Ruiz ◽  
Sergio A. Alvarez

AbstractDeep neural networks can provide accurate automated classification of human sleep signals into sleep stages that enables more effective diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. We develop a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) that attains state-of-the-art sleep stage classification performance on input data consisting of human sleep EEG and EOG signals. Nested cross-validation is used for optimal model selection and reliable estimation of out-of-sample classification performance. The resulting network attains a classification accuracy of $$84.50 \pm 0.13\%$$ 84.50 ± 0.13 % ; its performance exceeds human expert inter-scorer agreement, even on single-channel EEG input data, therefore providing more objective and consistent labeling than human experts demonstrate as a group. We focus on analyzing the learned internal data representations of our network, with the aim of understanding the development of class differentiation ability across the layers of processing units, as a function of layer depth. We approach this problem visually, using t-Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE), and propose a pooling variant of Centered Kernel Alignment (CKA) that provides an objective quantitative measure of the development of sleep stage specialization and differentiation with layer depth. The results reveal a monotonic progression of both of these sleep stage modeling abilities as layer depth increases.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Li ◽  
Chi Tang ◽  
Juan Liu ◽  
Wei Han ◽  
Siqi Yang ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Conventional manual sleep stage classification is time-consuming and relies on the knowledge and experience of the specialists. The emergence of automatic sleep stage classification greatly improves the classification efficiency. The feature extraction in automatic sleep stage classification is particularly important, which usually uses the linear methods based on techniques in the time domain, frequency domain, or time-frequency domain. Electroencephalograms (EEGs) contain a wealth of physiological information, have been widely used for the classification of sleep stage. Due to the nonlinear, non-stationary, and multifractal characteristics of EEGs, some nonlinear methods have been used to extract features of sleep stages in recent years, such as complexity, multifractal theory, and chaos theory. The Wavelet Leader Multifractal Formalism (WLMF) of the multifractal theory is widely applied to different physiological signals. The current researches focus on discussing the mean H¨older exponent (h0) and the width of the multifractal singularity spectrum (WD(h)) estimated by the WLMF method. However, in the field of sleep staging, a number of researches focused on h0, but few studies on WD(h). Results: This paper aims to assess the multifractal characteristic for sleep EEG time series from the Sleep-EDF Expanded Database by the WLMF method. In the young group, the mean h0 increased from the Wake stage to the S3 stage (p<0.01). So did the elderly group (p<0.001). WD(h) of the Wake stage was less than that of the S3 stage for the young group, and this relationship was reversed for the elderly group(χ2=13.769, df=1, p<0.001). Gender did not affect, with statistical significance, WD(h) of the Wake stage and the S3 stage (χ2=0.085, df=1, p=0.608), nor did the brain region (χ2=3.137, df=1, p=0.078). Conclusions: The result shows that WD(h) was influenced by aging. The gender and location of brain regions did not show significant influence on the multifractal characteristics of wakefulness and sleeping. This finding extends the application of the multifractal singularity spectrum on sleep staging, and raises a fundamental question on what might be the underlying mechanisms of the WD(h) reversion.


2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 3095-3112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Dursun ◽  
Seral Özşen ◽  
Cüneyt Yücelbaş ◽  
Şule Yücelbaş ◽  
Gülay Tezel ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junming Zhang ◽  
Yan Wu

AbstractMany systems are developed for automatic sleep stage classification. However, nearly all models are based on handcrafted features. Because of the large feature space, there are so many features that feature selection should be used. Meanwhile, designing handcrafted features is a difficult and time-consuming task because the feature designing needs domain knowledge of experienced experts. Results vary when different sets of features are chosen to identify sleep stages. Additionally, many features that we may be unaware of exist. However, these features may be important for sleep stage classification. Therefore, a new sleep stage classification system, which is based on the complex-valued convolutional neural network (CCNN), is proposed in this study. Unlike the existing sleep stage methods, our method can automatically extract features from raw electroencephalography data and then classify sleep stage based on the learned features. Additionally, we also prove that the decision boundaries for the real and imaginary parts of a complex-valued convolutional neuron intersect orthogonally. The classification performances of handcrafted features are compared with those of learned features via CCNN. Experimental results show that the proposed method is comparable to the existing methods. CCNN obtains a better classification performance and considerably faster convergence speed than convolutional neural network. Experimental results also show that the proposed method is a useful decision-support tool for automatic sleep stage classification.


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