Classification of Brainwaves for Sleep Stages by High-Dimensional FFT Features from EEG Signals

• Main Authors: Mera Kartika Delimayanti, Bedy Purnama, Ngoc Giang Nguyen, Mohammad Reza Faisal, Kunti Robiatul Mahmudah, Fatma Indriani, Mamoru Kubo, Kenji Satou
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-03-01
• Series: Applied Sciences
• Subjects: automatic sleep stage classification; electroencephalogram; fast fourier transform
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/5/1797

Manual classification of sleep stage is a time-consuming but necessary step in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, and its automation has been an area of active study. The previous works have shown that low dimensional fast Fourier transform (FFT) features and many machine learning algorithms have been applied. In this paper, we demonstrate utilization of features extracted from EEG signals via FFT to improve the performance of automated sleep stage classification through machine learning methods. Unlike previous works using FFT, we incorporated thousands of FFT features in order to classify the sleep stages into 2−6 classes. Using the expanded version of Sleep-EDF dataset with 61 recordings, our method outperformed other state-of-the art methods. This result indicates that high dimensional FFT features in combination with a simple feature selection is effective for the improvement of automated sleep stage classification.