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Inter-database validation of a deep learning approach for automatic sleep scoring.

Diego Alvarez-Estevez^1,2, Roselyne M Rijsman¹

¹Sleep Center, Haaglanden Medisch Centrum, The Hague, South-Holland, The Netherlands.

|August 16, 2021

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Developing generalizable automatic sleep staging algorithms is challenging. An ensemble deep learning approach improved model performance across diverse public sleep staging databases, enhancing generalization capabilities.

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Area of Science:

Artificial Intelligence
Biomedical Engineering
Computational Neuroscience

Background:

Automatic sleep staging is crucial for diagnosing sleep disorders.
Inter-database generalization of sleep staging algorithms is hindered by data variability and privacy concerns.
Existing deep learning models often struggle to generalize across different sleep datasets.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a generalizable deep learning approach for automatic sleep staging.
To evaluate the generalization performance of the proposed method on diverse public sleep staging databases.
To investigate the effectiveness of an ensemble-based approach for improving inter-database generalization.

Main Methods:

A general deep learning network architecture for automatic sleep staging was developed and tested with various preprocessing and architectural variants.
The prediction capabilities were evaluated on six public sleep staging datasets, assessing both local and external dataset generalization.
A novel ensemble-based approach combining individual local models was proposed and evaluated.

Main Results:

The CNN_LSTM_5 neural network variant achieved an average kappa score of 0.80 on independent local testing sets.
Individual local models showed a decrease in performance (average kappa 0.54) when predicting external datasets.
The proposed ensemble-based approach improved the average kappa score to 0.62 on external dataset prediction scenarios.
This study represents the largest validation of automatic sleep staging generalization across external databases to date.

Conclusions:

The developed deep learning method demonstrates good general performance, comparable to human agreement levels and state-of-the-art methods.
The ensemble-based approach offers a flexible and scalable solution for enhancing sleep staging algorithm generalization.
This method preserves data locality while improving the system's ability to generalize across different datasets.