scholarly journals Wavelet Leader Based Multifractal Analysis of Sleep Electroencephalogram

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.

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.


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.


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.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongdong Zhou ◽  
Guoqiang Hu ◽  
Jiacheng Zhang ◽  
Rui Yan ◽  
Fan Li ◽  
...  

AbstractIn diagnosing sleep disorders, sleep stage classification is a very essential yet time-consuming process. Most of the existing state-of-the-art approaches rely on hand-crafted features and multi-modality polysomnography (PSG) data, where prior knowledge is compulsory and high computation cost can be expected. Besides, few studies are able to obtain high accuracy sleep staging using raw single-channel electroencephalogram (EEG). To overcome these shortcomings, this paper proposes an end-to-end framework with a deep neural network, namely SingleChannelNet, for automatic sleep stage classification based on raw single-channel EEG. The proposed model utilizes a 90s epoch as the textual input and employs two multi-convolution blocks and several max-average pooling layers to learn different scales of feature representations. To demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed model, we evaluate our model using different raw single-channel EEGs (C4/A1 and Fpz-Cz) on two different datasets (SHHS and Sleep-EDF datasets). Experimental results show that the proposed architecture can achieve better overall accuracy and Cohen’s kappa (SHHS: 89.2%-84.8%, Sleep-EDF: 89.4%-85%) compared with state-of-the-art approaches. Additionally, the proposed model can learn features automatically for sleep stage classification using different single-channel EEGs with distinct sampling rates from different datasets without using any hand-engineered features.


1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (04/05) ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
A. Kjaer ◽  
W. Jensen ◽  
T. Dyrby ◽  
L. Andreasen ◽  
J. Andersen ◽  
...  

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.


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.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. de Goederen ◽  
S. Pu ◽  
M. Silos Viu ◽  
D. Doan ◽  
S. Overeem ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 456
Author(s):  
Wenpeng Neng ◽  
Jun Lu ◽  
Lei Xu

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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