Domain-Invariant Representation Learning and Sleep Dynamics Modeling for Automatic Sleep Staging

Area of Science:

• Neuroscience
• Biomedical Engineering
• Machine Learning

Background:

• Automatic sleep staging is crucial for diagnosing sleep disorders and preventing related diseases.
• Existing methods struggle with subject signal heterogeneity, unlabeled data utilization, sleep stage correlation modeling, and uncertainty quantification.

Purpose of the Study:

• To propose DREAM, a neural network model for domain-generalized sleep staging.
• To address limitations in current automatic sleep staging techniques by modeling sleep dynamics and quantifying uncertainty.

Main Methods:

• Developed DREAM, a neural network model to learn subject-invariant representations from physiological signals.
• Modeled sleep dynamics by capturing sequential signal segment and sleep stage interactions.
• Conducted empirical studies including prediction experiments, case studies, and uncertainty quantification.

Main Results:

• DREAM demonstrated superiority in sleep stage prediction across diverse subjects.
• Case studies validated DREAM's ability to generalize to new subjects, even with data differences.
• Uncertainty quantification revealed DREAM's reliability for clinical applications.

Conclusions:

• DREAM effectively learns generalized representations and models sleep dynamics for improved automatic sleep staging.
• The model's ability to quantify prediction uncertainty enhances its reliability for sleep experts.
• DREAM offers a promising approach for more accurate and robust sleep disorder diagnosis.