Sleep spindles: mechanisms and functions

LMJ Fernandez, A Lüthi - Physiological reviews, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Sleep spindles are burstlike signals in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of the sleeping
mammalian brain and electrical surface correlates of neuronal oscillations in thalamus. As …

Automatic sleep spindles detection—overview and development of a standard proposal assessment method

S Devuyst, T Dutoit, P Stenuit… - … conference of the IEEE …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the 1970s, various automatic sleep spindles procedures have been implemented and
presented in the literature. Unfortunately, their results are not easily comparable because …

Montreal Archive of Sleep Studies: an open‐access resource for instrument benchmarking and exploratory research

C O'reilly, N Gosselin, J Carrier… - Journal of sleep …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Manual processing of sleep recordings is extremely time‐consuming. Efforts to automate this
process have shown promising results, but automatic systems are generally evaluated on …

Sleep-spindle detection: crowdsourcing and evaluating performance of experts, non-experts and automated methods

SC Warby, SL Wendt, P Welinder, EGS Munk… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Sleep spindles are discrete, intermittent patterns of brain activity observed in human
electroencephalographic data. Increasingly, these oscillations are of biological and clinical …

A sleep spindle detection algorithm that emulates human expert spindle scoring

K Lacourse, J Delfrate, J Beaudry, P Peppard… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Sleep spindles are a marker of stage 2 NREM sleep that are linked to learning
& memory and are altered by many neurological diseases. Although visual inspection of the …

Sleep spindles and spike–wave discharges in EEG: their generic features, similarities and distinctions disclosed with Fourier transform and continuous wavelet …

E Sitnikova, AE Hramov, AA Koronovsky… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2009 - Elsevier
Epileptic activity in the form of spike–wave discharges (SWD) appears in the
electroencephalogram (EEG) during absence seizures. A relationship between SWD and …

Automatic sleep staging using ear-EEG

KB Mikkelsen, DB Villadsen, M Otto… - Biomedical engineering …, 2017 - Springer
Background Sleep and sleep quality assessment by means of sleep stage analysis is
important for both scientific and clinical applications. Unfortunately, the presently preferred …

A deep learning approach for real-time detection of sleep spindles

PM Kulkarni, Z Xiao, EJ Robinson… - Journal of neural …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Sleep spindles have been implicated in memory consolidation and synaptic
plasticity during NREM sleep. Detection accuracy and latency in automatic spindle detection …

Spindle oscillations in sleep disorders: a systematic review

OM Weiner, TT Dang-Vu - Neural plasticity, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Measurement of sleep microarchitecture and neural oscillations is an increasingly popular
technique for quantifying EEG sleep activity. Many studies have examined sleep spindle …

Stage-independent, single lead EEG sleep spindle detection using the continuous wavelet transform and local weighted smoothing

A Tsanas, GD Clifford - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Sleep spindles are critical in characterizing sleep and have been associated with cognitive
function and pathophysiological assessment. Typically, their detection relies on the …