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Self-supervised Learning for Label-Efficient Sleep Stage Classification: A Comprehensive Evaluation

10 Oct 2022arXiv:2210.06286archive 2025-07-28

Emadeldeen Eldele, Mohamed Ragab, Zhenghua Chen, Min Wu, Chee-Keong Kwoh, XiaoLi Li

The past few years have witnessed a remarkable advance in deep learning for EEG-based sleep stage classification (SSC). However, the success of these models is attributed to possessing a massive amount of labeled data for training, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios. In such scenarios, sleep labs can generate a massive amount of data, but labeling these data can be expensive and time-consuming. Recently, the self-supervised learning (SSL) paradigm has shined as one of the most successful techniques to overcome the scarcity of labeled data. In this paper, we evaluate the efficacy of SSL to boost the performance of existing SSC models in the few-labels regime. We conduct a thorough study on three SSC datasets, and we find that fine-tuning the pretrained SSC models with only 5% of labeled data can achieve competitive performance to the supervised training with full labels. Moreover, self-supervised pretraining helps SSC models to be more robust to data imbalance and domain shift problems. The code is publicly available at \url{https://github.com/emadeldeen24/eval_ssl_ssc}.

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