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Several studies have been conducted for automatic classification of sleep stages to ease time-consuming manual scoring process that can involve a high degree of experience and subjectivity. But none of them has found a practical usage in medical area so far because of their under acceptable success rates. In this study, a different classification scheme is proposed to increase the success rate in automatic sleep stage scoring in which sleep stages were classified as Awake, Non-REM1, Non-REM2, Non-REM3 and REM stages. Using EEG, EMG and EOG recordings of five healthy subjects, a modified version of sequential feature selection method was applied to the sleep epochs in class by class basis and different artificial neural network (ANN) architectures were trained for each class. That is to say, sleep stages were classified with five ANN architectures each of which uses different features and different network parameters for classification. The highest classification accuracy was obtained for REM sleep as 95.13 % in addition to the lowest classification accuracy of 86.42 % for Non-REM3 sleep. The overall accuracy, on the other hand, was recorded as 90.93 %, which is a comparatively good result when the other studies using all stages are taken into account.
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This study is supported by the Scientific Research Projects of Selcuk University (project no. 05401069).
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Özşen, S. Classification of sleep stages using class-dependent sequential feature selection and artificial neural network. Neural Comput & Applic 23, 1239–1250 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-012-1065-4
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