Abstract
ABSTRACT The knowledge of the distribution of sleep and wake over a 24-h day is essential for a comprehensive image of sleep-wake rhythms. Current sleep-wake scoring algorithms for wrist-worn actigraphy suffer from low specificities, which leads to an underestimation of the time staying awake. The goal of this study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03356938) was to develop a sleep-wake classifier with increased specificity. By artificially balancing the training dataset to contain as much wake as sleep epochs from day- and nighttime measurements from 12 subjects, we optimized the classification parameters to an optimal trade-off between sensitivity and specificity. The resulting sleep-wake classifier achieved high specificity of 80.4% and sensitivity of 88.6% on the balanced dataset containing 3079.9 h of actimeter data. In the validation on night sleep of separate adaptation recordings from 19 healthy subjects, the sleep-wake classifier achieved 89.4% sensitivity and 64.6% specificity and estimated accurately total sleep time and sleep efficiency with a mean difference of 12.16 min and 2.83%, respectively. This new, device-independent method allows to rid sleep-wake classifiers from their bias towards sleep detection and lay a foundation for more accurate assessments in everyday life, which could be applied to monitor patients with fragmented sleep-wake rhythms.
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