Automatic Sleep Data Scoring by Artificial Intelligence: A Pilot Study in Thai Population

Sleep apnea, a sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), is defined as repeatedly intermittent cessation of breathing during sleep. It causes various life-threatening diseases. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) releases the manual for sleep data scoring. Patients with SDB are prescribed to be monitored at the sleep clinic where several physiological data are recorded, called polysomnogram (PSG). The massive PSG data must be scored by the well-trained expert before being diagnosed by the physician. Our research is to use the Artificial Intelligence (AI) in sleep data scoring, particularly in respiratory events detection. Three ready-made Convolution Neural Networks (CNN); AlexNet, ResNet-50, and VGG-16, with transfer learning were applied to classify 5 overnight PSG data from Chulalongkorn hospital. Our preliminary results showed that all networks provide higher classification result in European Data Format (EDF) than in the text (ASCII) formats (71% vs 54%). The ResNet-50 model structure performed better than the other two networks on both data formats. As expected, the visualized (EDF) data is better than the unconditioned (ASCII) data. Our future development is modifying learning model to increase the scoring performance from more recruited PSG data.