Estimating vigilance level by using EEG and EMG signals

Authors:
Mehmet Akin;Muhammed B. Kurt;Necmettin Sezgin;Muhittin Bayram
Affiliations:
Dicle University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, 21280, Diyarbakir, Turkey;Dicle University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, 21280, Diyarbakir, Turkey;Dicle University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, 21280, Diyarbakir, Turkey;Dicle University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, 21280, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Venue:
Neural Computing and Applications
Year:
2008

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Abstract

We developed a new method for estimation of vigilance level by using both EEG and EMG signals recorded during transition from wakefulness to sleep. Previous studies used only EEG signals for estimating the vigilance levels. In this study, it was aimed to estimate vigilance level by using both EEG and EMG signals for increasing the accuracy of the estimation rate. In our work, EEG and EMG signals were obtained from 30 subjects. In data preparation stage, EEG signals were separated to its subbands using wavelet transform for efficient discrimination, and chin EMG was used to verify and eliminate the movement artifacts. The changes in EEG and EMG were diagnosed while transition from wakefulness to sleep by using developed artificial neural network (ANN). Training and testing data sets consist of the subbanded components of EEG and power density of EMG signals were applied to the ANN for training and testing the system which gives three situations for the vigilance level of the subject: awake, drowsy, and sleep. The accuracy of estimation was about 98–99% while the accuracy of the previous study, which uses only EEG, was 95–96%.