Sleep Stage Scoring Using Joint Frequency-Temporal and Unsupervised Features

Abstract: Patients with sleep disorders can better manage their lifestyle if they know about their special situations. Detection of such sleep disorders is usually possible by analyzing a number of vital signals that have been collected from the patients. To simplify this task, a number of Automatic Sleep Stage Recognition (ASSR) methods have been proposed. Most of these methods use temporal-frequency features that have been extracted from the vital signals. However, due to the non-stationary nature of sleep signals, such schemes are not leading an acceptable accuracy. Recently, some ASSR methods have been proposed which use deep neural networks for unsupervised feature extraction. In this paper, we proposed to combine the two ideas and use both temporal-frequency and unsupervised features at the same time. To augment the time resolution, each standard epoch is segmented into 5 sub-epochs. Additionally, to enhance the accuracy, we employ three classifiers with different properties and then use an ensemble method as the ultimate classifier. The simulation results show that the proposed method enhances the accuracy of conventional ASSR methods.