Artificial Neural Network and Wavelet Based Automated Detection of Sleep Spindles, REM Sleep and Wake States

Backpropagation artificial neural network (ANN) has been designed to classify sleep–wake stages. Four hours continuous three channel polygraphic signals such as EEG (electroencephalogram), EOG (electrooculogram) and EMG (electromyogram) from conscious subjects were digitally recorded and stored in computer. EOG and EMG signals were used for manual identification of sleep states before training and testing of ANN. The percentages power of the 2 s epochs of the digitized EEG signals from each of three sleep–wake patterns, sleep spindles (SS), rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and awake (AWA) sates, were calculated and analyzed to select the manually confirmed sleep–wake states for each epoch. Further, second order Daubechies mother wavelet has been used to get the wavelet coefficients for the selected EEG epochs. The wavelet coefficients for the EEG epochs (64 data) were selected as inputs for the training the network and to classify SS, REM sleep and AWA stages. The ANN architecture used (64–14–3) in present study shows overall very good agreement with manual sleep stage scoring with an average of 95.35% for all the 1,140 samples tested from SS, REM and AWA stages. This architecture of ANN was also found effectively differentiating the EEG power spectra from different sleep–wake states (96.84% in SS, 93.68% in REM sleep, 95.52% in AWA state). The high performance observed with the system based on wavelet coefficients along with the ANN, highlights the need of this computational tool into the field of sleep research.

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