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Automated sleep stage and event detection algorithms using quality-controlled polysomnography annotations.

Michiru Kaneda1, Sho Ogaki1, Tomoyuki Nohara1

  • 1ACCELStars, Inc.,  Tokyo, Japan.

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Summary
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Machine learning models for sleep analysis show near human-level performance in classifying sleep stages and detecting arousals. High-quality expert annotations are crucial for developing reliable automated sleep scoring systems.

Keywords:
arousal detectionautomated sleep analysisinter-scorer agreementpolysomnographyrespiratory event detectionsleep stage classification

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Area of Science:

  • Sleep Medicine
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Biomedical Signal Processing

Background:

  • Automated sleep analysis using polysomnography (PSG) is essential for diagnosing sleep disorders.
  • Machine learning (ML) models offer potential for objective and efficient sleep scoring.
  • Evaluating ML model performance against expert human scorers is critical for clinical translation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate ML models for sleep stage classification, arousal detection, and respiratory event detection from overnight PSG recordings.
  • To compare the performance of these ML models against certified human scorers and assess inter-scorer agreement.

Main Methods:

  • Overnight PSG data from healthy and sleep-disordered breathing participants were collected.
  • Four certified scorers provided reference annotations for sleep stages, arousals, and respiratory events.
  • Gradient-boosted decision tree models were trained using hand-crafted features from physiological signals.

    • Main Results:

    • Sleep stage classification achieved 0.840 accuracy and 0.791 Cohen's kappa.
    • Arousal detection yielded an F1-score of 0.733, with limits of agreement for arousal index of ±15 events/h.
    • Respiratory event detection achieved an F1-score of 0.818, with limits of agreement for apnea-hypopnea index of ±15 events/h.
    • Model performance approached human inter-scorer agreement for sleep stages and arousals.

    Conclusions:

    • Developed ML models demonstrate performance comparable to human experts in key sleep scoring tasks.
    • High consistency in expert annotations is vital for robust ML model development in sleep analysis.
    • Quality-controlled annotations are recommended for building reliable automated sleep analysis systems.