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    Area of Science:

    • Neuroscience
    • Sleep Medicine
    • Computational Biology

    Background:

    • Sleep instability and arousals are key indicators for diagnosing insomnia.
    • Cyclic alternating patterns (CAP) reflect sleep microstructure but their role in insomnia classification is understudied.
    • Quantitative metrics from sleep macro and microstructures are crucial for understanding sleep disorders.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To explore the utility of different CAP subphases in distinguishing individuals with insomnia from healthy controls.
    • To develop a classification model for insomnia using sleep microstructural patterns.
    • To assess the performance of machine learning models in subject-independent insomnia classification.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized sleep data from the CAP Sleep database, including 9 insomnia patients and 16 healthy subjects.
    • Extracted quantitative metrics from sleep macrostructures and microstructural patterns, focusing on CAP subphases.
    • Employed a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier with a linear kernel for classification tasks.

    Main Results:

    • Achieved a high classification accuracy of 90 ± 10% using an 80%-20% validation approach.
    • Obtained an accuracy of 88 ± 12% with a leave-one-subject-out cross-validation strategy.
    • Demonstrated superior performance compared to existing studies on insomnia classification within the CAP database.

    Conclusions:

    • Sleep microstructural patterns, particularly CAP subphases, are valuable for classifying insomnia.
    • The proposed approach offers a reliable, subject-independent method for insomnia diagnosis.
    • Measuring changes in CAP phases A and B can aid in the confirmatory diagnosis of insomnia via convenient sleep monitoring.