Repeated automatic sleep scoring based on ear-EEG is a valuable alternative to manually scored polysomnography.

ABSTRACT: While polysomnography (PSG) is the gold standard to quantify sleep, modern technology allows for new alternatives. PSG is obtrusive, affects the sleep it is set out to measure and requires technical assistance for mounting. A number of less obtrusive solutions based on alternative methods have been introduced, but few have been clinically validated. Here we validate one of these solutions, the ear-EEG method, against concurrently recorded PSG in twenty healthy subjects each measured for four nights. Two trained technicians scored the 80 nights of PSG independently, while an automatic algorithm scored the ear-EEG. The sleep stages and eight sleep metrics (Total Sleep Time (TST), Sleep Onset Latency, Sleep Efficiency, Wake After Sleep Onset, REM latency, REM fraction of TST, N2 fraction of T

SUBMITTER: Kjaer TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9931275 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature