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  • Neuroscience
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Computational Biology

Background:

  • Accurate and efficient detection of sleep spindles is a significant methodological challenge in sleep research.
  • Manual identification of sleep spindles by experts is time-consuming and resource-intensive.
  • Automated methods for sleep spindle detection often require extensive validation and may not capture nuanced features.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a method for manual sleep spindle detection using non-expert scorers in a crowdsourcing framework.
  • To establish reliable non-expert group standards (nEGS) for sleep spindle detection and compare their performance against expert group standards (EGS).
  • To evaluate the efficacy of the non-expert detection method against established automated sleep spindle detection techniques.

Main Methods:

  • Recruited 168 non-experts and 5 experts to manually identify sleep spindles in stage N2 and N3 sleep data using a MATLAB interface.
  • Scorers classified spindles as definite or indefinite, with assigned weights (1 and 0.5, respectively).
  • Developed an optimization method for consensus thresholds based on expert and non-expert results, establishing expert (EGS) and non-expert (nEGS) group standards.

Main Results:

  • The non-expert group standard, considering only definite spindles (nEGS-1), achieved high performance (F1 score = 0.78 for N2, 0.68 for N3) compared to the expert group standard (EGS).
  • The nEGS-1 method demonstrated superior performance over four tested automated sleep spindle detection methods.
  • A positive correlation was observed between individual expert performance and the nEGS-1 versus EGS performance (r = 0.61, P < 0.001). Optimal performance was maintained with 6 non-experts for N2 and 9 for N3.

Conclusions:

  • A crowdsourcing-based approach using non-experts provides an accurate and efficient method for manual sleep spindle detection.
  • The established non-expert group standards (nEGS) offer a viable and high-performing alternative to expert scoring and automated methods.
  • This study presents a detailed process for leveraging non-expert annotators for large-scale sleep spindle detection, advancing sleep research methodologies.