Automatic Sleep Stage Scoring with Single Channel EEG Using Convolutional Neural Networks
We used convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for automatic sleep stage scoring based on single channel electroencephalography (EEG) to learn task specific filters for classification without using prior domain knowledge. We used an openly available dataset from 20 healthy young adults for evaluation and applied 20 fold cross validation. We used class balanced random sampling within the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization of the CNN to avoid skewed performance in favor of the most represented sleep stages. We achieved high mean F1 score (81% range 79 83% mean accuracy across individual sleep stages (82% range 80 84% and overall accuracy (74% range 71 76% over all subjects. By analyzing and visualizing the filters that our CNN learns, we found that rules learned by the filters correspond to sleep scoring criteria in the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) manual that human experts follow. Our method's performance is balanced across classes and our results are comparable to state of the art methods with hand engineered features. We show that, without using prior domain knowledge, a CNN can automatically learn to distinguish among different normal sleep stages.
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