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Manual scoring of polysomnography (PSG) is a time intensive task, prone to inter scorer variability that can impact diagnostic reliability. This study investigates the integration of decision support systems (DSS) into PSG scoring…

Diagnosing sleep disorders is an important focus in neuroscience and engineering, as these conditions involve issues such as insufficient sleep, frequent awakenings, and difficulty reaching deep sleep. Accurate detection based on brain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-03 Mohammad Reza Yousefi , Reza Rahimi

Study Objectives: To evaluate the agreement between the millimeter-wave radar-based device and polysomnography (PSG) in diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and classification of sleep stage in children. Methods: 281 children, aged 1…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Wei Wang , Ruobing Song , Yunxiao Wu , Li Zheng , Wenyu Zhang , Zhaoxi Chen , Gang Li , Zhifei Xu

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a highly prevalent sleep disorder that is associated with increased risks of cardiovascular morbidity and all-cause mortality. While existing diagnostic approaches can roughly classify OSA severity or detect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Zijian Wang , Xiaoyu Bao , Chenhao Zhao , Jihui Zhang , Sizhi Ai , Yuanqing Li

Background: Black-box skepticism is one of the main hindrances impeding deep-learning-based automatic sleep scoring from being used in clinical environments. Methods: Towards interpretability, this work proposes a sequence-to-sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Huy Phan , Kaare Mikkelsen , Oliver Y. Chén , Philipp Koch , Alfred Mertins , Maarten De Vos

Automatic sleep staging plays a vital role in assessing sleep quality and diagnosing sleep disorders. Most existing methods rely heavily on long and continuous EEG recordings, which poses significant challenges for data acquisition in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Lejun Ai , Yulong Li , Haodong Yi , Jixuan Xie , Yue Wang , Jia Liu , Min Chen , Rui Wang

Dream narratives provide a unique window into human cognition and emotion, yet their systematic analysis using artificial intelligence has been underexplored. We introduce DreamNet, a novel deep learning framework that decodes semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tapasvi Panchagnula

Neural networks often obtain sub-optimal representations during training, which degrade robustness as well as classification performances. This is a severe problem in applying deep learning to bio-medical domains, since models are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Taeheon Lee , Jeonghwan Hwang , Honggu Lee

The past few years have witnessed a remarkable advance in deep learning for EEG-based sleep stage classification (SSC). However, the success of these models is attributed to possessing a massive amount of labeled data for training, limiting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-14 Emadeldeen Eldele , Mohamed Ragab , Zhenghua Chen , Min Wu , Chee-Keong Kwoh , Xiaoli Li

Analyzing electroencephalographic (EEG) time series can be challenging, especially with deep neural networks, due to the large variability among human subjects and often small datasets. To address these challenges, various strategies, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Niklas Grieger , Siamak Mehrkanoon , Stephan Bialonski

Gold-standard sleep scoring is based on epoch-based assignment of sleep stages based on a combination of EEG, EOG and EMG signals. However, a polysomnographic recording consists of many other signals that could be used for sleep staging,…

Transfer learning, a technique commonly used in generative artificial intelligence, allows neural network models to bring prior knowledge to bear when learning a new task. This study demonstrates that transfer learning significantly…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-03 William G Coon , Diego Luna , Akshita Panagrahi , Matthew Reid , Mattson Ogg

In recent years, deep learning has shown potential and efficiency in a wide area including computer vision, image and signal processing. Yet, translational challenges remain for user applications due to a lack of interpretability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Hamid Niknazar , Sara C. Mednick

Objective: To develop and validate an automated method for bedside monitoring of sleep state fluctuations in neonatal intensive care units. Methods: A deep learning -based algorithm was designed and trained using 53 EEG recordings from a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-26 Saeed Montazeri Moghadam , Päivi Nevalainen , Nathan J. Stevenson , Sampsa Vanhatalo

Polysomnography (PSG) provides the gold standard for sleep assessment but suffers from substantial heterogeneity across recording devices and cohorts. There have been growing efforts to build general-purpose foundation models (FMs) for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zitao Shuai , Zongzhe Xu , David Yang , Wei Wang , Yuzhe Yang

In this research, we attempt to answer the following basic research questions: Is a machine learning model able to classify all types of sleep disorders with high accuracy? Among the different modalities of sleep disorder signals, are some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Dylan Zhuang , Ivey Rao , Ali K Ibrahim

In this work we describe a new deep learning approach for automatic sleep staging, and carry out its validation by addressing its generalization capabilities on a wide range of sleep staging databases. Prediction capabilities are evaluated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Diego Alvarez-Estevez , Roselyne M. Rijsman

Clinical sleep analysis require manual analysis of sleep patterns for correct diagnosis of sleep disorders. However, several studies have shown significant variability in manual scoring of clinically relevant discrete sleep events, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Alexander Neergaard Olesen , Poul Jennum , Emmanuel Mignot , Helge B. D. Sorensen

As sleep disorders are becoming more prevalent there is an urgent need to classify sleep stages in a less disturbing way.In particular, sleep-stage classification using simple sensors, such as single-channel electroencephalography (EEG),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-27 Iksoo Choi , Wonyong Sung

Respiratory ailments afflict a wide range of people and manifests itself through conditions like asthma and sleep apnea. Continuous monitoring of chronic respiratory ailments is seldom used outside the intensive care ward due to the large…