A Comparison of Performance of Sleep Spindle Classification Methods Using Wavelets

Sleep spindles are transient waveforms and one of the key features that contributes to sleep stages assessment. Due to the large number of sleep spindles appearing on an overnight sleep, automating the detection of this waveforms is desirable. This paper presents a comparative study over the sleep spindle classification task involving the discrete wavelet decomposition of the EEG signal, and seven different classification algorithms. The main goal was to find a classifier that achieves the best performance. The results reported that Random Forest stands out over the rest of models, achieving an accuracy value of \(94.08 \pm 2.8\) and \(94.08 \pm 2.4\,\%\) with the symlet and biorthogonal wavelet families.

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