Automatic detection of cortical arousals in sleep and their contribution to daytime sleepiness.

Journal: Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Significant interscorer variability is found in manual scoring of arousals in polysomnographic recordings (PSGs). We propose a fully automatic method, the Multimodal Arousal Detector (MAD), for detecting arousals.

Authors

  • Andreas Brink-Kjær
    Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark; Stanford University Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA; Danish Center for Sleep Medicine, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark.
  • Alexander Neergaard Olesen
  • Paul E Peppard
    Department of Preventive medicine, U Madison Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
  • Katie L Stone
    California Pacific Medical Center, Research Institute, San Francisco.
  • Poul Jennum
    Danish Center for Sleep Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, 2600, Denmark.
  • Emmanuel Mignot
    Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
  • Helge B D Sorensen