Monitoring single-channel EEG is a promising home-based approach for insomnia identification. Currently, many automatic sleep stage scoring approaches based on single-channel EEG have been developed, whereas few studies research on automatic insomnia identification based on single-channel EEG labelled with sleep stage annotations. In this paper, we propose a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) model for automatic insomnia identification based on single-channel EEG labelled with sleep stage annotations, and further investigate the identification performance based on different sleep stages EEG epochs. Single-channel EEG on 9 insomnia patients and 9 healthy subjects was used in this study. We constructed 4 subdatasets from EEG epochs based on the sleep stage annotations: All sleep stage dataset (ALL-DS), REM sleep stage dataset (REM-DS), light sleep stage dataset (LSS-DS), and SWS sleep stage dataset (SWS-DS). Subsequently, 4 subdatasets were fed into our 1D-CNN. We conducted experiments under intra-patient and inter-patient paradigms, respectively. Our experiments demonstrated that our 1D-CNN leveraging 3 subdatasets composed of REM, LSS and SWS epochs, respectively, achieved higher average accuracies in comparison with baseline methods under both intra-patient and inter-patient paradigms. The experimental results also indicated that amongst all the sleep stages, 1D-CNN leveraging REM and SWS epochs exhibited the best insomnia identification average accuracies in intra-patient paradigm, which are 98.98% and 99.16% respectively, whereas no statistically significant difference was found in inter-patient paradigm. For automatic insomnia identification based on single-channel EEG labelled with sleep stage annotations, 1D-CNN model introduced in this paper could achieve superior performance than traditional methods. INDEX TERMS Convolutional neural networks, insomnia, inter-patient paradigm, intra-patient paradigm, single-channel electroencephalogram (EEG), sleep stage, sleep data analysis.
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