Determining the onset of the REM phase using only EMG data?

raphaelvallat / yasa

YASA (Yet Another Spindle Algorithm): a Python package to analyze polysomnographic sleep recordings.

https://raphaelvallat.com/yasa/

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

417 stars 113 forks source link

Determining the onset of the REM phase using only EMG data? #45

Closed zenbooster closed 2 years ago

zenbooster commented 2 years ago

Hi. Can I determine the onset of the REM phase using only EMG data?

raphaelvallat commented 2 years ago

Hi @zenbooster,

I don't think this is really feasible unfortunately. The EMG can be quite similar (= no motion) between deep slow-waves and REM sleep, so I doubt you could ever get a high accuracy detection of REM sleep just from the EMG. I think that the EOG would work better for this task.

Thanks, Raphael