Automatic Sleep Staging Method Using EEG Based on STFT and Residual Network

Sleep is a vital physiological process that affects both physical and mental health, with sleep disorders linked to various conditions such as mental illnesses and cardiovascular diseases. Accurate sleep stage classification is crucial for assessing sleep quality and diagnosing sleep disorders; howe...

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Main Authors: Ran Zhang, Rui Jiang, Haowei Hu, Ying Gao, Wei Xia, Boming Song
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Rui Jiang
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Wei Xia
Boming Song
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description Sleep is a vital physiological process that affects both physical and mental health, with sleep disorders linked to various conditions such as mental illnesses and cardiovascular diseases. Accurate sleep stage classification is crucial for assessing sleep quality and diagnosing sleep disorders; however, traditional manual sleep staging methods are time-consuming and prone to human bias. This study introduces an enhanced method for automatic sleep staging that addresses the challenges of low training efficiency and reliance on extensive labeled datasets. Initially, high-dimensional time-frequency features of EEG signals are extracted using a short-time Fourier transform (STFT), transforming unidimensional signal data into multidimensional image datasets. Subsequently, the deep-seated temporal and spectral features of sleep stages are unearthed and learned through an improved ResNet-18 residual network, facilitating the automated classification of sleep stages. The proposed method demonstrated a classification accuracy of 85.71% on seven selected full-night recordings from the Sleep-EDF dataset, with a macro-average F1-score of 85.05%. Comparisons with other methods confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method in improving sleep quality evaluation and diagnosis. The results indicate the potential for using this approach in real-time clinical applications, offering a reliable and efficient solution for sleep disorder diagnosis. This work lays a foundation for further exploration of automated systems in sleep medicine, contributing to more accurate and accessible sleep health assessments.
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spelling doaj-art-c5036dd0a33a47acae2690a79a8de0962025-01-07T00:01:27ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-01131778178910.1109/ACCESS.2024.352426710818687Automatic Sleep Staging Method Using EEG Based on STFT and Residual NetworkRan Zhang0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8628-3803Rui Jiang1Haowei Hu2https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2109-7174Ying Gao3Wei Xia4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3157-6988Boming Song5https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5743-4539School of Medical Information and Engineering, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, ChinaSchool of Medical Information and Engineering, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, ChinaSchool of Medical Information and Engineering, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, ChinaSchool of Medical Information and Engineering, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, ChinaShanghai Poseidon Medical Electronic Instrument Company Ltd., Shanghai, ChinaSchool of Medical Information and Engineering, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, ChinaSleep is a vital physiological process that affects both physical and mental health, with sleep disorders linked to various conditions such as mental illnesses and cardiovascular diseases. Accurate sleep stage classification is crucial for assessing sleep quality and diagnosing sleep disorders; however, traditional manual sleep staging methods are time-consuming and prone to human bias. This study introduces an enhanced method for automatic sleep staging that addresses the challenges of low training efficiency and reliance on extensive labeled datasets. Initially, high-dimensional time-frequency features of EEG signals are extracted using a short-time Fourier transform (STFT), transforming unidimensional signal data into multidimensional image datasets. Subsequently, the deep-seated temporal and spectral features of sleep stages are unearthed and learned through an improved ResNet-18 residual network, facilitating the automated classification of sleep stages. The proposed method demonstrated a classification accuracy of 85.71% on seven selected full-night recordings from the Sleep-EDF dataset, with a macro-average F1-score of 85.05%. Comparisons with other methods confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method in improving sleep quality evaluation and diagnosis. The results indicate the potential for using this approach in real-time clinical applications, offering a reliable and efficient solution for sleep disorder diagnosis. This work lays a foundation for further exploration of automated systems in sleep medicine, contributing to more accurate and accessible sleep health assessments.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10818687/Sleep stagingelectroencephalogramshort-time Fourier transformresidual network
spellingShingle Ran Zhang
Rui Jiang
Haowei Hu
Ying Gao
Wei Xia
Boming Song
Automatic Sleep Staging Method Using EEG Based on STFT and Residual Network
IEEE Access
Sleep staging
electroencephalogram
short-time Fourier transform
residual network
title Automatic Sleep Staging Method Using EEG Based on STFT and Residual Network
title_full Automatic Sleep Staging Method Using EEG Based on STFT and Residual Network
title_fullStr Automatic Sleep Staging Method Using EEG Based on STFT and Residual Network
title_full_unstemmed Automatic Sleep Staging Method Using EEG Based on STFT and Residual Network
title_short Automatic Sleep Staging Method Using EEG Based on STFT and Residual Network
title_sort automatic sleep staging method using eeg based on stft and residual network
topic Sleep staging
electroencephalogram
short-time Fourier transform
residual network
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10818687/
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