Effective diagnosis of sleep disorders using EEG and EOG signals

This work focuses on the diagnosis of various sleep disorders such as insomnia, narcolepsy, periodic leg movement, nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy, bruxism, REM behavior disorder, and sleep-disordered breathing. We utilize SVM for classifying each of the sleep disorders from healthy controls. The proposed approach is evaluated on the publicly available CAP dataset comprising 108 overnight recordings from healthy controls and patients with sleep disorders. A single feature called gridded distribution entropy derived from Poincaré plots of EEG signal provides 100% accuracy in distinguishing healthy controls from each pathology, except insomnia and PLM. With the EOG channel, we are able to classify these two groups as well with 100% accuracy, demonstrating the effectiveness of EOG in disambiguating insomnia and PLM from controls.Clinical relevance- Diagnosis of sleep disorders is important to facilitate appropriate treatment. It is challenging due to the diverse nature and inter-subject variation of the physiological symptoms. Automated sleep disorder detection can improve cost efficiency and reduce variability.