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Feature Set: FS-C-EAR-9

Overview

This feature set is targeted for sleep stage classification based on sensor data available from chest location. The feature set computes heart rate (HR), heart rate variability (HRV), movement, and respiratory rate features over temporal windows (e.g. 30 seconds) captured from ECG, respiratory and accelerometer sensors.

Target Location/Sensors

The target location for this feature set is the chest. From this location, the features are compute from the following raw sensors:

  • ECG: Electrocardiography (ECG) sensor data is used to compute HR, HRV, and respiratory rate features.
  • RSP: Respiratory sensor data is used to compute respiratory rate features.
  • IMU: Accelerometer data is used to compute movement features.

Dataset Support

  • MESA: This dataset does not directly provide accelerometer data from the chest. However, the dataset does provide respiratory signals (RIP) captured from both chest and abdomen. In place of accelerometer data, we use filtered chest respiratory signals as a proxy for body movement features.

Features

This feature set includes the following 14 features:

Feature Name Description Sensor
hr_bpm Mean heart rate in beats per minute PPG
hrv_td_mean_nn Mean of the NN intervals PPG
hrv_td_sd_nn Standard deviation of the NN intervals PPG
hrv_td_median_nn Median of the NN intervals PPG
hrv_fd_lfhf_ratio Ratio of low frequency to high frequency power in the frequency domain PPG
mov_mu Mean movement IMU
mov_std Standard deviation of movement IMU
mov_med Median movement IMU
rsp_bpm Mean respiration rate derived from the PPG signal RSP
hrv_qos Quality of signal derived from HRV ECG

Output

The feature set is stored as HDF5 files (.h5) with one file per subject with path: {save_path}/{dataset}/{subject_id}.h5. Each HDF5 file includes the following entries:

  • /features: Time x Feature tensor (fp32). Features are computed over windows of sensor data.
  • /mask: Time x Mask tensor (bool). Mask indicates valid feature values.
  • /labels: Time x Label (int). Labels are sleep stages.