IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

EEG-Based Neonatal Sleep-Wake Classification Using Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network

  • Saadullah Farooq Abbasi,
  • Jawad Ahmad,
  • Ahsen Tahir,
  • Muhammad Awais,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Muhammad Irfan,
  • Hafiza Ayesha Siddiqa,
  • Abu Bakar Waqas,
  • Xi Long,
  • Bin Yin,
  • Saeed Akbarzadeh,
  • Chunmei Lu,
  • Laishuan Wang,
  • Wei Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3028182
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8
pp. 183025 – 183034

Abstract

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Objective: Classification of sleep-wake states using multichannel electroencephalography (EEG) data that reliably work for neonates. Methods: A deep multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network is developed to classify sleep-wake states using multichannel bipolar EEG signals, which takes an input vector of size 108 containing the joint features of 9 channels. The network avoids any post-processing step in order to work as a full-fledged real-time application. For training and testing the model, EEG recordings of 3525 30-second segments from 19 neonates (postmenstrual age of 37 ± 05 weeks) are used. Results: For sleep-wake classification, mean Cohen's kappa between the network estimate and the ground truth annotation by human experts is 0.62. The maximum mean accuracy can reach up to 83% which, to date, is the highest accuracy for sleep-wake classification.

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