Automatic Sleep Staging of EEG Signals: Recent Development, Challenges, and Future Directions

Abstract

Modern deep learning holds a great potential to transform clinical practice on human sleep. Teaching a machine to carry out routine tasks would be a tremendous reduction in workload for clinicians. Sleep staging, a fundamental step in sleep practice, is a suitable task for this and will be the focus in this article. Recently, automatic sleep staging systems have been trained to mimic manual scoring, leading to similar performance to human sleep experts, at least on scoring of healthy subjects. Despite tremendous progress, we have not seen automatic sleep scoring adopted widely in clinical environments. This review aims to give a shared view of the authors on the most recent state-of-the-art development in automatic sleep staging, the challenges that still need to be addressed, and the future directions for automatic sleep scoring to achieve clinical value.

This article has been published in the Physiological Measurement journal

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