NONLINEAR VOLTERRA COEFFICIENTS FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION IN SLEEP STAGE CLASSIFICATION
This paper presents a new method for sleep scoring based on nonlinear Volterra features of EEG signals by using only one single EEG channel. The Volterra features are extracted from characteristic waves of EEG signals which can characterize different sleep stages individually. The recurrent neural classifier takes all the features extracted on 30s epochs from EEG signals and assigns them to one of the five possible stages: Wakefulness, NREM 1, NREM 2, SWS, and REM. Eight sleep recordings obtained from Caucasian males and females without any medication are utilized to validate the proposed method. Moreover, the performance of the proposed classifier in comparison with other classifiers is presented. The classification rate of the proposed classifier is better than that of the other classifier that does not use nonlinear Volterra feature. The results demonstrate that the proposed classifier with nonlinear Volterra features of the characteristic waves of EEG signals can classify sleep stages more efficiently and accurately using only a single EEG channel.