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| author | Strøm, Jesper Skjærbæk, Casper Bertelsen, Natasha Becker Simonsen, Steffen Torpe Okkels, Niels Bertram, David Röttgen, Sinah Kufer, Konstantin Mikkelsen, Kaare B. Otto, Marit Jennum, Poul Jørgen Borghammer, Per Sommerauer, Michael Kidmose, Preben |
| author_facet | Strøm, Jesper Skjærbæk, Casper Bertelsen, Natasha Becker Simonsen, Steffen Torpe Okkels, Niels Bertram, David Röttgen, Sinah Kufer, Konstantin Mikkelsen, Kaare B. Otto, Marit Jennum, Poul Jørgen Borghammer, Per Sommerauer, Michael Kidmose, Preben |
| contents | Isolated REM sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) is a key prodromal marker of Parkinson's disease (PD), and video-polysomnography (vPSG) remains the diagnostic gold standard. However, manual sleep staging is particularly challenging in neurodegenerative diseases due to EEG abnormalities and fragmented sleep, making PSG assessments a bottleneck for deploying new RBD screening technologies at scale. We adapted U-Sleep, a deep neural network, for generalizable sleep staging in PD and iRBD. A pretrained U-Sleep model, based on a large, multisite non-neurodegenerative dataset (PUB; 19,236 PSGs across 12 sites), was fine-tuned on research datasets from two centers (Lundbeck Foundation Parkinson's Disease Research Center (PACE) and the Cologne-Bonn Cohort (CBC); 112 PD, 138 iRBD, 89 age-matched controls. The resulting model was evaluated on an independent dataset from the Danish Center for Sleep Medicine (DCSM; 81 PD, 36 iRBD, 87 sleep-clinic controls). A subset of PSGs with low agreement between the human rater and the model (Cohen's $κ$ < 0.6) was re-scored by a second blinded human rater to identify sources of disagreement. Finally, we applied confidence-based thresholds to optimize REM sleep staging. The pretrained model achieved mean $κ$ = 0.81 in PUB, but $κ$ = 0.66 when applied directly to PACE/CBC. By fine-tuning the model, we developed a generalized model with $κ$ = 0.74 on PACE/CBC (p < 0.001 vs. the pretrained model). In DCSM, mean and median $κ$ increased from 0.60 to 0.64 (p < 0.001) and 0.64 to 0.69 (p < 0.001), respectively. In the interrater study, PSGs with low agreement between the model and the initial scorer showed similarly low agreement between human scorers. Applying a confidence threshold increased the proportion of correctly identified REM sleep epochs from 85% to 95.5%, while preserving sufficient (> 5 min) REM sleep for 95% of subjects. |
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| spellingShingle | Fully-automated sleep staging: multicenter validation of a generalizable deep neural network for Parkinson's disease and isolated REM sleep behavior disorder Strøm, Jesper Skjærbæk, Casper Bertelsen, Natasha Becker Simonsen, Steffen Torpe Okkels, Niels Bertram, David Röttgen, Sinah Kufer, Konstantin Mikkelsen, Kaare B. Otto, Marit Jennum, Poul Jørgen Borghammer, Per Sommerauer, Michael Kidmose, Preben Machine Learning Quantitative Methods Isolated REM sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) is a key prodromal marker of Parkinson's disease (PD), and video-polysomnography (vPSG) remains the diagnostic gold standard. However, manual sleep staging is particularly challenging in neurodegenerative diseases due to EEG abnormalities and fragmented sleep, making PSG assessments a bottleneck for deploying new RBD screening technologies at scale. We adapted U-Sleep, a deep neural network, for generalizable sleep staging in PD and iRBD. A pretrained U-Sleep model, based on a large, multisite non-neurodegenerative dataset (PUB; 19,236 PSGs across 12 sites), was fine-tuned on research datasets from two centers (Lundbeck Foundation Parkinson's Disease Research Center (PACE) and the Cologne-Bonn Cohort (CBC); 112 PD, 138 iRBD, 89 age-matched controls. The resulting model was evaluated on an independent dataset from the Danish Center for Sleep Medicine (DCSM; 81 PD, 36 iRBD, 87 sleep-clinic controls). A subset of PSGs with low agreement between the human rater and the model (Cohen's $κ$ < 0.6) was re-scored by a second blinded human rater to identify sources of disagreement. Finally, we applied confidence-based thresholds to optimize REM sleep staging. The pretrained model achieved mean $κ$ = 0.81 in PUB, but $κ$ = 0.66 when applied directly to PACE/CBC. By fine-tuning the model, we developed a generalized model with $κ$ = 0.74 on PACE/CBC (p < 0.001 vs. the pretrained model). In DCSM, mean and median $κ$ increased from 0.60 to 0.64 (p < 0.001) and 0.64 to 0.69 (p < 0.001), respectively. In the interrater study, PSGs with low agreement between the model and the initial scorer showed similarly low agreement between human scorers. Applying a confidence threshold increased the proportion of correctly identified REM sleep epochs from 85% to 95.5%, while preserving sufficient (> 5 min) REM sleep for 95% of subjects. |
| title | Fully-automated sleep staging: multicenter validation of a generalizable deep neural network for Parkinson's disease and isolated REM sleep behavior disorder |
| topic | Machine Learning Quantitative Methods |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09793 |