An evolutionary model for sleep quality analytics using fuzzy system

Abstract

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a neuro signal reflecting brain activity. These signals provide information about brain activity, eye movements, and muscle tone, which can be used to determine the sleep stage. Categorizing sleep stages can be done manually by visually. Alternatively, automated algorithms can be developed using machine learning techniques to classify sleep stages based on signal features and patterns. This paper aims to automatically classify sleep stages based on extracted patterns from EEG signals. A fuzzy min-max neural network is proposed and implemented for sleep stage classification and clustering. The paper concludes that the fuzzy min-max neural network outperforms other tested methods in sleep stage classification. The models implemented in the study include K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Random Forest, Decision Tree, XGBoost, AdaBoost, Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), and the fuzzy min-max classifier. The results indicate that the fuzzy classifier achieves the highest accuracy of 86%, followed by the CNN model with 81%. Among the machine learning algorithms, Random Forest with an accuracy of 55.46%, followed by XGBoost with 53.18%, surpassing the other algorithms used in the experiment. AdaBoost and Gaussian Naive Bayes both achieve an accuracy of 45.10%. Decision Tree, KNN, LDA, and QDA yield accuracies of 37.66%, 16.46%, 28.57%, and 29.5% respectively. These findings demonstrate the efficiency of the fuzzy min-max neural network and the superiority of the fuzzy classifier and CNN models in sleep stage classification, indicating their potential for accurate automated sleep stage analysis.

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Sleep EEG signal sleep stage classification rapid eye movement fuzzy min-max neural network sleep cassette

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