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  • Neuroscience
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Sleep Medicine

Background:

  • Microsleep episodes (MSEs), brief sleep fragments (<15s), are subjectively perceived as sleepiness and characterized by EEG slowing.
  • The Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT) assesses vigilance, but standard scoring (30s epochs) often excludes MSEs due to lack of criteria and laborious scoring.
  • Automatic detection of MSEs is needed to improve MWT analysis and understanding of sleepiness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate deep learning algorithms for the automatic detection of MSEs using raw electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrooculogram (EOG) data.
  • To compare the performance of these algorithms against human expert scoring of MWT data.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of MWT data from 76 patients, with visual scoring of wakefulness, MSEs, microsleep episode candidates (MSEc), and episodes of drowsiness (ED) by experts.
  • Implementation of segmentation algorithms using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and a combination of CNNs with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks.
  • Training, validation, and testing of algorithms on data from 53, 12, and 11 patients, respectively.

Main Results:

  • The developed deep learning algorithms demonstrated good performance, approaching that of human experts in detecting wakefulness and MSEs.
  • Detection accuracy for MSEc and ED was poorer, mirroring low inter-expert reliability for these borderline sleep segments.
  • t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) visualization indicated that MSEs and wakefulness were largely separable, while MSEc and ED overlapped significantly.

Conclusions:

  • Deep neuronal networks can reliably detect MSEs from raw EEG and EOG data with performance comparable to human experts.
  • This provides a proof of principle for automated MSE detection, potentially enhancing MWT analysis and sleepiness assessment.
  • The developed algorithms and data are publicly available for further research.