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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

Sleep stage recognition is crucial for assessing sleep and diagnosing chronic diseases. Deep learning models, such as Convolutional Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks, are trained using grid data as input, making them not capable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Jianchao Lu , Yuzhe Tian , Shuang Wang , Michael Sheng , Xi Zheng

While automated sleep staging has achieved expert-level accuracy, its clinical adoption is hindered by a lack of auditable reasoning. We introduce SleepVLM, a rule-grounded vision-language model (VLM) designed to stage sleep from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Guifeng Deng , Pan Wang , Jiquan Wang , Shuying Rao , Junyi Xie , Wanjun Guo , Tao Li , Haiteng Jiang

This paper proposed LightSleepNet - a light-weight, 1-d Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based personalized architecture for real-time sleep staging, which can be implemented on various mobile platforms with limited hardware resources.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Yiqiao Liao , Chao Zhang , Milin Zhang , Zhihua Wang , Xiang Xie

Identifying sleep stages and patterns is an essential part of diagnosing and treating sleep disorders. With the advancement of smart technologies, sensor data related to sleeping patterns can be captured easily. In this paper, we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-29 Vidya Rohini Konanur Sathish , Wai Lok Woo , Edmond S. L. Ho

Sleep stages play an important role in identifying sleep patterns and diagnosing sleep disorders. In this study, we present an automated sleep stage classifier called the Attentive Dilated Convolutional Neural Network (AttDiCNN), which uses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Md Jobayer , Md Mehedi Hasan Shawon , Tasfin Mahmud , Md. Borhan Uddin Antor , Arshad M. Chowdhury

Sleep stages classification is a crucial task in the context of sleep studies. It involves the simultaneous analysis of multiple signals recorded during sleep. However, it is complex and tedious, and even the trained expert can spend…

Automatic sleep staging has been often treated as a simple classification problem that aims at determining the label of individual target polysomnography (PSG) epochs one at a time. In this work, we tackle the task as a sequence-to-sequence…

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

Sleep is among the most important factors affecting one's daily performance, well-being, and life quality. Nevertheless, it became possible to measure it in daily life in an unobtrusive manner with wearable devices. Rather than camera…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Ozan Kılıç , Berrenur Saylam , Özlem Durmaz İncel

Classification of sleep stages plays an essential role in diagnosing sleep-related diseases including Sleep Disorder Breathing (SDB) disease. In this study, we propose an end-to-end deep learning architecture, named SSNet, which comprises…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Haifa Almutairi , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Amitava Datta

Study Objectives: Sleep stage scoring is performed manually by sleep experts and is prone to subjective interpretation of scoring rules with low intra- and interscorer reliability. Many automatic systems rely on few small-scale databases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Alexander Neergaard Olesen , Poul Jennum , Emmanuel Mignot , Helge B D Sorensen

Deep neural networks are widely used for classification. These deep models often suffer from a lack of interpretability -- they are particularly difficult to understand because of their non-linear nature. As a result, neural networks are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Oscar Li , Hao Liu , Chaofan Chen , Cynthia Rudin

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

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

Study Objective: Sleep is reflected not only in the electroencephalogram but also in heart rhythms and breathing patterns. Therefore, we hypothesize that it is possible to accurately stage sleep based on the electrocardiogram (ECG) and…

In meta-learning approaches, it is difficult for a practitioner to make sense of what kind of representations the model employs. Without this ability, it can be difficult to both understand what the model knows as well as to make meaningful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Pedro Sandoval-Segura , Wallace Lawson

Background: Despite recent significant progress in the development of automatic sleep staging methods, building a good model still remains a big challenge for sleep studies with a small cohort due to the data-variability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Huy Phan , Oliver Y. Chén , Philipp Koch , Zongqing Lu , Ian McLoughlin , Alfred Mertins , Maarten De Vos

Sleep profoundly affects our health, and sleep deficiency or disorders can cause physical and mental problems. Despite significant findings from previous studies, challenges persist in optimizing deep learning models, especially in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-28 Younghoon Na , Hyun Keun Ahn , Hyun-Kyung Lee , Yoongeol Lee , Seung Hun Oh , Hongkwon Kim , Jeong-Gun Lee

Accurate tumor staging in lung cancer is crucial for prognosis and treatment planning and is governed by explicit anatomical criteria under fixed guidelines. However, most existing deep learning approaches treat this spatially structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Saniah Kayenat Chowdhury , Rusab Sarmun , Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury , Sohaib Bassam Zoghoul , Israa Al-Hashimi , Adam Mushtak , Amith Khandakar

One of the major challenges in machine learning nowadays is to provide predictions with not only high accuracy but also user-friendly explanations. Although in recent years we have witnessed increasingly popular use of deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Yao Ming , Panpan Xu , Huamin Qu , Liu Ren