Automatic SLEEP staging: From young aduslts to elderly patients using multi-class support vector machine

Jacob Kempfner, Poul Jennum, Helge B D Sorensen, Gitte Julie Christensen, Miki Nikolic

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    Abstract

    Aging is a process that is inevitable, and makes our body vulnerable to age-related diseases. Age is the most consistent factor affecting the sleep structure. Therefore, new automatic sleep staging methods, to be used in both of young and elderly patients, are needed. This study proposes an automatic sleep stage detector, which can separate wakefulness, rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep and non-REM (NREM) sleep using only EEG and EOG. Most sleep events, which define the sleep stages, are reduced with age. This is addressed by focusing on the amplitude of the clinical EEG bands, and not the affected sleep events. The age-related influences are then reduced by robust subject-specific scaling. The classification of the three sleep stages are achieved by a multi-class support vector machine using the one-versus-rest scheme. It was possible to obtain a high classification accuracy of 0.91. Validation of the sleep stage detector in other sleep disorders, such as apnea and narcolepsy, should be considered in future work.

    Original languageEnglish
    JournalI E E E Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference Proceedings
    Volume2013
    Pages (from-to)5777-5780
    Number of pages4
    ISSN2375-7477
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

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