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This study aims to develop automated diagnostic tools to aid in the identification of rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder (RBD). Those diagnosed with RBD enact their dreams and therefore present an abnormal characteristic of movement during REM sleep. Several methods have been proposed for RBD detection that use electromyogram (EMG) recordings and manually annotated sleep stages to objectively quantify abnormal REM movement. In this work we further develop these proven techniques with additional features that incorporate the relationship of muscle movement between sleep stages and general sleep architecture. Performance is evaluated using polysomnography (PSG) recordings from 43 aged-matched healthy controls and subjects diagnosed with RBD obtained from multiple institutions and publicly available resources. Using a random forest classifier with established and additional features, the performance of RBD detection was shown to improve upon established metrics (achieving 88% accuracy, 91% sensitivity, and 86% specificity).

Original publication

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512539

Type

Journal article

Journal

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc

Publication Date

07/2018

Volume

2018

Pages

1460 - 1463

Keywords

Case-Control Studies, Electromyography, Humans, Polysomnography, REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, Sensitivity and Specificity, Sleep, REM