Enhanced automatic sleep spindle detection: a sliding window-based wavelet analysis and comparison using a proposal assessment method

  • Zhuang X
  • Li Y
  • Peng N
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Abstract

Sleep spindles are thought to be related to some sleep diseases and play an important role in memory consolidation. They were traditionally identified by physiology experts based on rules and recently detected by automatic algorithms. However, many automatic approaches were validated on the different electroencephalogram (EEG) using various assessment methods, making it difficult to appraised a method objectively and fairly. In this paper, we proposed a sliding window-based probability estimation (SWPE) method for sleep spindle detection. We performed a continuous wavelet transform with Mexican hat wavelet function, following by a sliding window to find out the candidate spindle points corresponding to the large wavelet coefficients at the frequencies of spindles and estimated their probabilities. To enhance the results, we used the envelope of the rectified signal to reject some false sleep spindle candidates. This was an enhanced method and we called it SWPE-E in this paper. Finally, we compared our approaches with four approaches on the same public available EEG database, and the result showed the significative improvement of our proposed approaches.

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Zhuang, X., Li, Y., & Peng, N. (2016). Enhanced automatic sleep spindle detection: a sliding window-based wavelet analysis and comparison using a proposal assessment method. Applied Informatics, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40535-016-0027-9

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