An EEG-based brain-computer interface for automatic sleep stage classification

A passive brain–computer interface (BCI) based upon functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) brain signals is used for earlier detection of human drowsiness during driving tasks. This BCI modality acquired hemodynamic signals of 13 healthy subjects from the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DPFC) of the brain. Drowsiness activity is recorded using a continuous-wave fNIRS system and eight channels over the right DPFC. During the experiment, sleep-deprived subjects drove a vehicle in a driving simulator while their cerebral oxygen regulation (CORE) state was continuously measured. Vector phase analysis (VPA) was used as a classifier to detect drowsiness state along with sleep stage-based threshold criteria. Extensive training and testing with various feature sets and classifiers are done to justify the adaptation of threshold criteria for any subject without requiring recalibration. Three statistical features (mean oxyhemoglobin, signal peak, and the sum of peaks) along with six VPA features (trajectory slopes of VPA indices) were used. The average accuracies for the five classifiers are 90.9% for discriminant analysis, 92.5% for support vector machines, 92.3% for nearest neighbors, 92.4% for both decision trees, and ensembles over all subjects’ data. Trajectory slopes of CORE vector magnitude and angle: m(|R|) and m(∠R) are the best-performing features, along with ensemble classifier with the highest accuracy of 95.3% and minimum computation time of 40 ms. The statistical significance of the results is validated with a p-value of less than 0.05. The proposed passive BCI scheme demonstrates a promising technique for online drowsiness detection using VPA along with sleep stage classification.

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BENDR: Using Transformers and a Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning Task to Learn From Massive Amounts of EEG Data

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience ◽

10.3389/fnhum.2021.653659 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 ◽

Author(s):

Demetres Kostas ◽

Stéphane Aroca-Ouellette ◽

Frank Rudzicz

Keyword(s):

Deep Neural Networks ◽

Sleep Stage ◽

Learning Task ◽

Language Modeling ◽

Computer Interface ◽

Eeg Data ◽

Stage Classification ◽

Sleep Stage Classification ◽

Classification Tasks ◽

Training Objective

Deep neural networks (DNNs) used for brain–computer interface (BCI) classification are commonly expected to learn general features when trained across a variety of contexts, such that these features could be fine-tuned to specific contexts. While some success is found in such an approach, we suggest that this interpretation is limited and an alternative would better leverage the newly (publicly) available massive electroencephalography (EEG) datasets. We consider how to adapt techniques and architectures used for language modeling (LM) that appear capable of ingesting awesome amounts of data toward the development of encephalography modeling with DNNs in the same vein. We specifically adapt an approach effectively used for automatic speech recognition, which similarly (to LMs) uses a self-supervised training objective to learn compressed representations of raw data signals. After adaptation to EEG, we find that a single pre-trained model is capable of modeling completely novel raw EEG sequences recorded with differing hardware, and different subjects performing different tasks. Furthermore, both the internal representations of this model and the entire architecture can be fine-tuned to a variety of downstream BCI and EEG classification tasks, outperforming prior work in more task-specific (sleep stage classification) self-supervision.

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Causal Probabilistic Network and Power Spectral Estimation Used in Sleep Stage Classification

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1636853 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 36 (04/05) ◽

pp. 41-46

Author(s):

A. Kjaer ◽

W. Jensen ◽

T. Dyrby ◽

L. Andreasen ◽

J. Andersen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sleep Stage ◽

Spectral Estimation ◽

Interrater Agreement ◽

Probabilistic Networks ◽

Probabilistic Network ◽

Spectral Bands ◽

Power Spectral ◽

Stage Classification ◽

Sleep Stage Classification ◽

The Brain

Abstract.A new method for sleep-stage classification using a causal probabilistic network as automatic classifier has been implemented and validated. The system uses features from the primary sleep signals from the brain (EEG) and the eyes (AOG) as input. From the EEG, features are derived containing spectral information which is used to classify power in the classical spectral bands, sleep spindles and K-complexes. From AOG, information on rapid eye movements is derived. Features are extracted every 2 seconds. The CPN-based sleep classifier was implemented using the HUGIN system, an application tool to handle causal probabilistic networks. The results obtained using different training approaches show agreements ranging from 68.7 to 70.7% between the system and the two experts when a pooled agreement is computed over the six subjects. As a comparison, the interrater agreement between the two experts was found to be 71.4%, measured also over the six subjects.

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Classification of Brainwaves for Sleep Stages by High-Dimensional FFT Features from EEG Signals

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app10051797 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (5) ◽

pp. 1797 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mera Kartika Delimayanti ◽

Bedy Purnama ◽

Ngoc Giang Nguyen ◽

Mohammad Reza Faisal ◽

Kunti Robiatul Mahmudah ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Sleep Stage ◽

Machine Learning Algorithms ◽

High Dimensional ◽

Sleep Stages ◽

Eeg Signals ◽

Stage Classification ◽

Sleep Stage Classification ◽

Low Dimensional

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.

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Capturing the Development of Internal Representations in a High-Performing Deep Network for Sleep Stage Classification

SN Computer Science ◽

10.1007/s42979-021-00697-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Sarun Paisarnsrisomsuk ◽

Carolina Ruiz ◽

Sergio A. Alvarez

Keyword(s):

Input Data ◽

Single Channel ◽

Sleep Stage ◽

Quantitative Measure ◽

Classification Performance ◽

Sleep Stages ◽

Layer Depth ◽

Human Sleep ◽

Stage Classification ◽

Sleep Stage Classification

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.

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Radar-based sleep stage classification in children undergoing polysomnography: a pilot-study

Sleep Medicine ◽

10.1016/j.sleep.2021.03.022 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

R. de Goederen ◽

S. Pu ◽

M. Silos Viu ◽

D. Doan ◽

S. Overeem ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Pilot Study ◽

Sleep Stage ◽

Stage Classification ◽

Sleep Stage Classification

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CCRRSleepNet: A Hybrid Relational Inductive Biases Network for Automatic Sleep Stage Classification on Raw Single-Channel EEG

Brain Sciences ◽

10.3390/brainsci11040456 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 456

Author(s):

Wenpeng Neng ◽

Jun Lu ◽

Lei Xu

Keyword(s):

Deep Learning ◽

Single Channel ◽

Sleep Stage ◽

Learning Model ◽

Actual Performance ◽

Feature Extraction Method ◽

Inductive Bias ◽

Stage Classification ◽

Sleep Stage Classification ◽

Deep Learning Model

In the inference process of existing deep learning models, it is usually necessary to process the input data level-wise, and impose a corresponding relational inductive bias on each level. This kind of relational inductive bias determines the theoretical performance upper limit of the deep learning method. In the field of sleep stage classification, only a single relational inductive bias is adopted at the same level in the mainstream methods based on deep learning. This will make the feature extraction method of deep learning incomplete and limit the performance of the method. In view of the above problems, a novel deep learning model based on hybrid relational inductive biases is proposed in this paper. It is called CCRRSleepNet. The model divides the single channel Electroencephalogram (EEG) data into three levels: frame, epoch, and sequence. It applies hybrid relational inductive biases from many aspects based on three levels. Meanwhile, multiscale atrous convolution block (MSACB) is adopted in CCRRSleepNet to learn the features of different attributes. However, in practice, the actual performance of the deep learning model depends on the nonrelational inductive biases, so a variety of matching nonrelational inductive biases are adopted in this paper to optimize CCRRSleepNet. The CCRRSleepNet is tested on the Fpz-Cz and Pz-Oz channel data of the Sleep-EDF dataset. The experimental results show that the method proposed in this paper is superior to many existing methods.

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