An accurate sleep stages classification method based on state space model

Abstract

The classification of sleep stages is the process which helps to evaluate the quality of sleep and detect the sleep related disorders. Through analyzing the electroencephalography, the sleep stages can be discriminated manually by specialists. However, this can be a laboriousness work because of the huge datasets. Until now, several studies have been conducted based on the automatic analysis of electroencephalography. Still, as the development of wearable technology, there is a need for an accurate and single-channel electroencephalography based sleep stages identification system. In this paper, a state-space based sleep stages classification method is proposed using the proposed model based essence features extraction method. This method employed the state-space model to establish the intrinsic models based on the single-channel electroencephalography, from which the features used for further classification can be extracted. For 2-stage to 6-stage classification of sleep states, the verification system can achieve 98.6%, 94.9%, 93.0%, 92.3%, 91.8% accuracy on the Sleep-EDF database, and also reach 94.9%, 87.7%, 82.7%, 80.9%, 78.2% on Dreams Subjects database.