Siamese Sleep Transformer For Robust Sleep Stage Scoring With Self-knowledge Distillation and Selective Batch Sampling
This work addresses robustness issues in sleep stage scoring for medical applications, but it is incremental as it builds on existing transformer and knowledge distillation methods.
The paper tackled robust sleep stage scoring from single-channel EEG signals by addressing label bias and training instability, proposing a Siamese sleep transformer with self-knowledge distillation and selective batch sampling, achieving competitive performance across datasets and reducing standard deviation in repetitive training.
In this paper, we propose a Siamese sleep transformer (SST) that effectively extracts features from single-channel raw electroencephalogram signals for robust sleep stage scoring. Despite the significant advances in sleep stage scoring in the last few years, most of them mainly focused on the increment of model performance. However, other problems still exist: the bias of labels in datasets and the instability of model performance by repetitive training. To alleviate these problems, we propose the SST, a novel sleep stage scoring model with a selective batch sampling strategy and self-knowledge distillation. To evaluate how robust the model was to the bias of labels, we used different datasets for training and testing: the sleep heart health study and the Sleep-EDF datasets. In this condition, the SST showed competitive performance in sleep stage scoring. In addition, we demonstrated the effectiveness of the selective batch sampling strategy with a reduction of the standard deviation of performance by repetitive training. These results could show that SST extracted effective learning features against the bias of labels in datasets, and the selective batch sampling strategy worked for the model robustness in training.