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  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
  • Sleep Medicine

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  • Sleep staging is crucial for diagnosing sleep disorders and managing sleep health.
  • Manual sleep scoring is time-consuming.
  • Current photoplethysmography (PPG)-based deep learning models face generalization challenges due to data drift.

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  • To evaluate multi-source domain training for improving out-of-distribution generalization in four-class sleep staging using raw PPG time-series.
  • To develop and assess a deep learning model named SleepPPG-Net2.
  • To investigate the impact of demographic factors, ethnicity, and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) on model performance.

Main Methods:

  • Developed SleepPPG-Net2, a deep learning model utilizing multi-source domain training for sleep staging.
  • Benchmarked SleepPPG-Net2 against two state-of-the-art models.
  • Analyzed performance variations related to age, sex, ethnicity, and OSA severity.

Main Results:

  • SleepPPG-Net2 demonstrated superior performance compared to benchmark models, with up to a 21% improvement in generalization (Cohen's kappa).
  • Observed significant performance disparities linked to demographic factors (age, sex) and OSA severity.

Conclusions:

  • SleepPPG-Net2 significantly enhances PPG-based sleep staging accuracy and generalizability.
  • The study highlights the influence of demographic and clinical factors on the performance of AI models in sleep analysis.