PaperarXiv:2411.04644

wav2sleep: A Unified Multi-Modal Approach to Sleep Stage Classification from Physiological Signals

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Authors: Jonathan F. Carter, Lionel Tarassenko (2 authors)

arXiv preprint (cs.LG, cs.AI); accepted ML4H 2024

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  • SOTA on ChatPPG: Sleep staging · MESA
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  • SOTA on ChatPPG: Sleep staging · SHHS
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  • SOTA on ChatPPG: Sleep staging · MESA
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TL;DR

Unified model that accepts variable sensor sets at train and test time (addresses PPG scarcity vs ECG). Jointly trained on >10,000 overnight recordings from six public PSG datasets including SHHS and MESA; outperforms prior staging models across test-time combinations including ECG, PPG, and respiratory signals without modality-fixed architectures.

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Abstract

Accurate classification of sleep stages from less obtrusive sensor measurements such as the electrocardiogram (ECG) or photoplethysmogram (PPG) could enable important applications in sleep medicine. Existing approaches to this problem have typically used deep learning models designed and trained to operate on one or more specific input signals. However, the datasets used to develop these models often do not contain the same sets of input signals. Some signals, particularly PPG, are much less prevalent than others, and this has previously been addressed with techniques such as transfer learning. Additionally, only training on one or more fixed modalities precludes cross-modal information transfer from other sources, which has proved valuable in other problem domains. To address this, we introduce wav2sleep, a unified model designed to operate on variable sets of input signals during training and inference. After jointly training on over 10,000 overnight recordings from six publicly available polysomnography datasets, including SHHS and MESA, wav2sleep outperforms existing sleep stage classification models across test-time input combinations including ECG, PPG, and respiratory signals.

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Tasks & signals

Tasks

Sleep staging

Signals

Keywords

sleepstagingmultimodalMESASHHS

How it works

How wav2sleep works: Setup → Method → TargetSetup: Signals (PPG, ECG, respiratory); Form factor (other). Method: wav2sleep. Target: Sleep staging.SetupSignals: PPG, ECG, respiratorySignalsPPG, ECG, respiratoryForm factor: otherForm factorotherMethodwav2sleepTargetSleep stagingSleep staging

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APA

Carter, J. F., & Tarassenko, L. (2024). wav2sleep: A Unified Multi-Modal Approach to Sleep Stage Classification from Physiological Signals. arXiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.04644

BibTeX

@misc{carter2024wav2sleep,
  title         = {{wav2sleep: A Unified Multi-Modal Approach to Sleep Stage Classification from Physiological Signals}},
  author        = {Carter, Jonathan F. and Tarassenko, Lionel},
  year          = {2024},
  howpublished  = {arXiv preprint},
  doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2411.04644},
  eprint        = {2411.04644},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv}
}

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