Published in:
01-09-2015 | Editorial (invited)
EOG-based auto-staging: less is more
Authors:
Christian Berthomier, Marie Brandewinder
Published in:
Sleep and Breathing
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Issue 3/2015
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Excerpt
This issue of Sleep and Breathing presents the validation results of a new automated wake/sleep staging method based on EOG activity, developed by Jussi Virkkala from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. Classically, the automated method is compared to visual analysis, on an epoch by epoch basis. It reaches a level of global concordance of 88 % with a Kappa of 0.57. In other words, on the 248,696 epochs of the validation dataset, 212,138 were scored correctly in wake/sleep, that is as the human expert did it, and on 36,558 epochs, the two scorings differ. …