High-fidelity EEG feature-engineered taxonomy for bruxism and PLMS prognostication through pioneering and avant-garde ML frameworks

Abstract

Periodic Leg Movement during Sleep (PLMS) and Bruxism are linked with changes in EEG signal characteristics. This work applies machine learning and data mining approaches to examine these changes. Patients with PLMS and bruxism had nighttime EEG recordings to examine changes in brain activity. The findings revealed constant variations in brain hemodynamics even in the absence of clearly observable arousals in the EEG. Wavelet decomposition was used to improve classification precision. Using the N3 sleep stage, accuracy varied from 92 % to 96 %, with an AUC of 0.85–0.89, in diagnosing binary sleep disorders. Still, adding wavelet-based elements greatly enhanced performance, obtaining an AUC of 0.99 with classification accuracy ranging from 94 % to 98 %. This emphasizes how strongly discriminative power wavelet-extracted EEG characteristics possess. Using K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), and Support Vector Machines (SVM) with Radial Basis Function (RBF), Bruxism categorization was accomplished. These models attained respectively 82 %, 90 %, and 93 % percent classification accuracy. This work is the first to show a direct connection among differences in brain activity based on PLMS, Bruxism, and EEG-based technologies. The results show how well machine learning methods and EEG feature extraction might diagnose sleep problems. Although the therapeutic relevance of these findings is yet unknown, the results imply that enhanced EEG-based classification techniques could produce more reliable and automated diagnostic instruments for Bruxism and PLMS.