Paper

Addressing Wearable Sleep Tracking Inequity: A New Dataset and Novel Methods for a Population with Sleep Disorders

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Authors: Will Ke Wang, Jiamu Yang, Leeor Hershkovich, Hayoung Jeong, Bill Chen, Karnika Singh, Ali R Roghanizad, Md Mobashir Hasan Shandhi, Andrew R Spector, Jessilyn Dunn

Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL 2024), PMLR 248:380-396

TL;DR

Introduces DREAMT — 100 Duke Sleep Disorders Center patients wearing an Empatica E4 during overnight PSG — and a sleep/wake method for a sleep-disordered population. Per-30-s-epoch features from BVP (Oura-style PPG preprocessing), ACC, EDA and skin temperature feed LightGBM; GPBoost mixed-effects models add obesity or apnea severity as random effects, and an LSTM post-processing step adds temporal context. Best (GPBoost + apnea severity + LSTM), participant-level 5-fold CV on 80 participants: wake-positive F1 0.823 ± 0.019, accuracy 0.857, AUROC 0.926, AUPRC 0.915, kappa 0.694 ± 0.025 (baseline LightGBM kappa 0.605).

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Results on ChatPPG leaderboards · 4

All leaderboards
LeaderboardMethodResultRank
DREAMT accuracySleep/wake detection (actigraphy-style)Addressing Wearable Sleep Tracking Inequity0.857accuracy, higher is better#1 of 1
DREAMT AUROCSleep/wake detection (actigraphy-style)Addressing Wearable Sleep Tracking Inequity0.926AUROC, higher is better#1 of 1
DREAMT Class F1 for one stated class , not macroSleep/wake detection (actigraphy-style)Addressing Wearable Sleep Tracking Inequity0.823Class F1 for one stated class , not macro, higher is better#1 of 1
DREAMT Cohen's kappaSleep/wake detection (actigraphy-style)Addressing Wearable Sleep Tracking Inequity0.694Cohen's kappa, higher is better#1 of 1

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Tasks & signals

Keywords

Sleep WakeDREAMTEmpatica E4LightGBMGPBoostMixed EffectsLSTMSleep Disorders

Datasets used

How it works

How Method works: Setup → Method → TargetSetup: Signals (PPG, IMU, EDA, TEMP); Form factor (wrist). Method: Method (Gradient-boosted trees). Target: Sleep staging.SetupSignals: PPG, IMU, EDA, TEMPSignalsPPG, IMU, EDA, TEMPForm factor: wristForm factorwristMethodMethodGradient-boosted treesTargetSleep stagingSleep staging

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Wang, W. K., Yang, J., Hershkovich, L., Jeong, H., Chen, B., Singh, K., Roghanizad, A. R., Shandhi, M. M. H., Spector, A. R., & Dunn, J. (2024). Addressing Wearable Sleep Tracking Inequity: A New Dataset and Novel Methods for a Population with Sleep Disorders. Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning , PMLR, 248, 380–396. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v248/wang24a.html
Wang, Will Ke, Jiamu Yang, Leeor Hershkovich, Hayoung Jeong, Bill Chen, Karnika Singh, Ali R Roghanizad, Md Mobashir Hasan Shandhi, Andrew R Spector, and Jessilyn Dunn. 2024. "Addressing Wearable Sleep Tracking Inequity: A New Dataset and Novel Methods for a Population with Sleep Disorders." Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning , PMLR 248: 380–396. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v248/wang24a.html.
Wang, W. K., Yang, J., Hershkovich, L., Jeong, H., Chen, B., Singh, K., Roghanizad, A. R., Shandhi, M. M. H., Spector, A. R. and Dunn, J. (2024) 'Addressing Wearable Sleep Tracking Inequity: A New Dataset and Novel Methods for a Population with Sleep Disorders', Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning , PMLR, 248, pp. 380–396. Available at: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v248/wang24a.html
Wang, Will Ke, et al. "Addressing Wearable Sleep Tracking Inequity: A New Dataset and Novel Methods for a Population with Sleep Disorders." Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning , PMLR, vol. 248, 2024, pp. 380–396. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v248/wang24a.html.
W. K. Wang et al., "Addressing Wearable Sleep Tracking Inequity: A New Dataset and Novel Methods for a Population with Sleep Disorders," Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning , PMLR, vol. 248, pp. 380–396, 2024, [Online]. Available: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v248/wang24a.html.
@inproceedings{wang2024addressing,
  title         = {{Addressing Wearable Sleep Tracking Inequity: A New Dataset and Novel Methods for a Population with Sleep Disorders}},
  author        = {Wang, Will Ke and Yang, Jiamu and Hershkovich, Leeor and Jeong, Hayoung and Chen, Bill and Singh, Karnika and Roghanizad, Ali R. and Shandhi, Md Mobashir Hasan and Spector, Andrew R. and Dunn, Jessilyn},
  year          = {2024},
  booktitle     = {Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning , PMLR},
  volume        = {248},
  pages         = {380--396},
  url           = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v248/wang24a.html}
}

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