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Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Interpretable Analysis of EEG Sleep Stage Scoring

2 Oct 2017arXiv:1710.00633archive 2025-07-28

Albert Vilamala, Kristoffer H. Madsen, Lars K. Hansen

Sleep studies are important for diagnosing sleep disorders such as insomnia, narcolepsy or sleep apnea. They rely on manual scoring of sleep stages from raw polisomnography signals, which is a tedious visual task requiring the workload of highly trained professionals. Consequently, research efforts to purse for an automatic stage scoring based on machine learning techniques have been carried out over the last years. In this work, we resort to multitaper spectral analysis to create visually interpretable images of sleep patterns from EEG signals as inputs to a deep convolutional network trained to solve visual recognition tasks. As a working example of transfer learning, a system able to accurately classify sleep stages in new unseen patients is presented. Evaluations in a widely-used publicly available dataset favourably compare to state-of-the-art results, while providing a framework for visual interpretation of outcomes.

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EEGElectroencephalogram (EEG)Sleep Stage DetectionTransfer Learning

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Sleep Stage Detection Sleep-EDF Deep CNN with transfer-learning Accuracy 81.3% #8 of 8 Archive leaderboard report

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