Scoring accuracy of automated sleep staging from a bipolar electroocular recording compared to manual scoring by multiple raters

Abstract

Our study demonstrated that automated scoring of sleep obtained from a single-channel of forehead EEG results in agreement to majority manual scoring are similar to results obtained from studies of manual interrater agreement. The benefit in assessing auto-staging accuracy with consensus agreement across multiple raters is most apparent in patients with OSA; additionally, assessing auto-staging accuracy limited disagreements in patients on medications and in those with compromised signal quality.