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A computer program for the analysis of a sleep electroencephalogram (EEG) is presented. The method relies on two steps. First, a spectral analysis is performed for signals recorded from one or more electrode locations. Then, two EEG parameters are obtained by storing the spectral activity in a multidimensional space, whose dimension is reduced using principal component analysis (PCA) techniques. The main advantage of these parameters is in describing the process of sleep on a continuous scale as a function of time. Validation of the method was performed with the data collected from 16 subjects (8 young volunteers and 8 elderly insomniacs). Results snowed that the parameters correlate highly with the hypnograms established by conventional visual scoring. This signal parametrisation, however, offers more information regarding the time course of sleep, since small variations within individual sleep stages as well as smooth transitions between stages are assessed. Finally, the concurrent use of both parameters provides an original way of considering sleep as a dynamic process evolving cyclically in a single plane.
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Jobert, M., Escola, H., Poiseau, E. et al. Automatic analysis of sleep using two parameters based on principal component analysis of electroencephalography spectral data. Biol. Cybern. 71, 197–207 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00202759
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