Dreem Open Datasets: Multi-Scored Sleep Datasets to compare Human and Automated sleep staging
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Sleep stage classification constitutes an important element of sleep disorder diagnosis. It relies on the visual inspection of polysomnography records by trained sleep technologists. Automated approaches have been designed to alleviate this resource-intensive task. However, such approaches are usually compared to a single human scorer annotation despite an inter-rater agreement of about 85 datasets, DOD-H including 25 healthy volunteers and DOD-O including 55 patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Both datasets have been scored by 5 sleep technologists from different sleep centers. We developed a framework to compare automated approaches to a consensus of multiple human scorers. Using this framework, we benchmarked and compared the main literature approaches. We also developed and benchmarked a new deep learning method, SimpleSleepNet, inspired by current state-of-the-art. We demonstrated that many methods can reach human-level performance on both datasets. SimpleSleepNet achieved an F1 of 89.9 vs 84.8 sleep staging outperforms human scorers performance for healthy volunteers and patients suffering from OSA. Consideration could be made to use automated approaches in the clinical setting.
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