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ArticlePloS one2019

Robust, automated sleep scoring by a compact neural network with distributional shift correction.

Zeke Barger, Charles G Frye, Danqian Liu, Yang Dan, Kristofer E Bouchard

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5 authors.

Zeke BargerHelen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-8226-0911
Charles G FryeHelen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
Danqian LiuDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
Yang DanHelen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
Kristofer E BouchardHelen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America.

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Studying the biology of sleep requires the accurate assessment of the state of experimental subjects, and manual analysis of relevant data is a major bottleneck. Recently, deep learning applied to electroencephalogram and electromyogram data has shown great promise as a sleep scoring method, approaching the limits of inter-rater reliability. As with any machine learning algorithm, the inputs to a sleep scoring classifier are typically standardized in order to remove distributional shift caused by variability in the signal collection process. However, in scientific data, experimental manipulations introduce variability that should not be removed. For example, in sleep scoring, the fraction of time spent in each arousal state can vary between control and experimental subjects. We introduce a standardization method, mixture z-scoring, that preserves this crucial form of distributional shift. Using both a simulated experiment and mouse in vivo data, we demonstrate that a common standardization method used by state-of-the-art sleep scoring algorithms introduces systematic bias, but that mixture z-scoring does not. We present a free, open-source user interface that uses a compact neural network and mixture z-scoring to allow for rapid sleep scoring with accuracy that compares well to contemporary methods. This work provides a set of computational tools for the robust automation of sleep scoring.

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AlgorithmsAnimalsAutomationDeep LearningElectroencephalographyElectromyographyHumansMachine LearningMiceNeural Networks, ComputerPolysomnographyReproducibility of ResultsSleepSleep StagesUser-Computer Interface

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PMID31834897
PMCPMC6910668

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