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Accurate sleep staging is essential for diagnosing OSA and hypopnea in stroke patients. Although PSG is reliable, it is costly, labor-intensive, and manually scored. While deep learning enables automated EEG-based sleep staging in healthy…

Conventional sleep monitoring is time-consuming, expensive and uncomfortable, requiring a large number of contact sensors to be attached to the patient. Video data is commonly recorded as part of a sleep laboratory assessment. If accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jonathan Carter , João Jorge , Bindia Venugopal , Oliver Gibson , Lionel Tarassenko

Sleep disorder diagnosis relies on the analysis of polysomnography (PSG) records. As a preliminary step of this examination, sleep stages are systematically determined. In practice, sleep stage classification relies on the visual inspection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-21 Antoine Guillot , Valentin Thorey

Introduction: Sleep staging is an essential component in the diagnosis of sleep disorders and management of sleep health. It is traditionally measured in a clinical setting and requires a labor-intensive labeling process. We hypothesize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Kevin Kotzen , Peter H. Charlton , Sharon Salabi , Lea Amar , Amir Landesberg , Joachim A. Behar

Automatic sleep staging is a challenging problem and state-of-the-art algorithms have not yet reached satisfactory performance to be used instead of manual scoring by a sleep technician. Much research has been done to find good feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Martin Längkvist , Amy Loutfi

Sleep abnormalities can have severe health consequences. Automated sleep staging, i.e. labelling the sequence of sleep stages from the patient's physiological recordings, could simplify the diagnostic process. Previous work on automated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Konstantinos Kontras , Christos Chatzichristos , Huy Phan , Johan Suykens , Maarten De Vos

Sleep monitoring through accessible wearable technology is crucial to improving well-being in ubiquitous computing. Although photoplethysmography(PPG) sensors are widely adopted in consumer devices, achieving consistently reliable sleep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Jiawei Wang , Yu Guan , Chen Chen , Ligang Zhou , Laurence T. Yang , Sai Gu

Automation of sleep analysis, including both macrostructural (sleep stages) and microstructural (e.g., sleep spindles) elements, promises to enable large-scale sleep studies and to reduce variance due to inter-rater incongruencies. While…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Niklas Grieger , Siamak Mehrkanoon , Philipp Ritter , Stephan Bialonski

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

As machine learning becomes increasingly prevalent in critical fields such as healthcare, ensuring the safety and reliability of machine learning systems becomes paramount. A key component of reliability is the ability to estimate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Elisabeth R. M. Heremans , Nabeel Seedat , Bertien Buyse , Dries Testelmans , Mihaela van der Schaar , Maarten De Vos

Correctly identifying sleep stages is important in diagnosing and treating sleep disorders. This work proposes a joint classification-and-prediction framework based on CNNs for automatic sleep staging, and, subsequently, introduces a simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Huy Phan , Fernando Andreotti , Navin Cooray , Oliver Y. Chén , Maarten De Vos

Scoring sleep stages in polysomnography recordings is a time-consuming task plagued by significant inter-rater variability. Therefore, it stands to benefit from the application of machine learning algorithms. While many algorithms have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Tiezhi Wang , Nils Strodthoff

Deep learning is widely used in the most recent automatic sleep scoring algorithms. Its popularity stems from its excellent performance and from its ability to directly process raw signals and to learn feature from the data. Most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Luigi Fiorillo , Paolo Favaro , Francesca Dalia Faraci

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

Deep learning techniques are rapidly advanced recently, and becoming a necessity component for widespread systems. However, the inference process of deep learning is black-box, and not very suitable to safety-critical systems which must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Hiroshi Kuwajima , Masayuki Tanaka , Masatoshi Okutomi

Diagnosis prediction is a critical task in healthcare, where timely and accurate identification of medical conditions can significantly impact patient outcomes. Traditional machine learning and deep learning models have achieved notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Qiuhao Lu , Rui Li , Elham Sagheb , Andrew Wen , Jinlian Wang , Liwei Wang , Jungwei W. Fan , Hongfang Liu

Deep neural networks for medical image classification often fail to generalize consistently in clinical practice due to violations of the i.i.d. assumption and opaque decision-making. This paper examines interpretability in deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Mohammad Hossein Najafi , Mohammad Morsali , Mohammadreza Pashanejad , Saman Soleimani Roudi , Mohammad Norouzi , Saeed Bagheri Shouraki

Automatic sleep staging is a critical task in healthcare due to the global prevalence of sleep disorders. This study focuses on single-channel electroencephalography (EEG), a practical and widely available signal for automatic sleep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Amirali Vakili , Salar Jahanshiri , Armin Salimi-Badr

Dynamic treatment regimes have been proposed to personalize treatment decisions by utilizing historical patient data, but they may not always improve on the current standard of care. It is thus meaningful to integrate the standard of care…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-11 Johannes Hruza , Arvid Sjölander , Erin Gabriel , Samir Bhatt , Michael Sachs

Sleep is essential for maintaining human health and quality of life. Analyzing physiological signals during sleep is critical in assessing sleep quality and diagnosing sleep disorders. However, manual diagnoses by clinicians are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Cheol-Hui Lee , Hakseung Kim , Byung C. Yoon , Dong-Joo Kim