11/09/2022 - A video walkthrough is now available.

06/12/2021 - Support for scoring more than three brain states is now available with AccuSleep X.

08/11/2020 - Mac compatibility. AccuSleep should now be functional on Mac computers.

04/09/2020 - Implemented a better algorithm for removing short bouts.

11/05/2019 - EEG/EMG data are now only loaded when necessary to avoid out-of-memory errors.

10/30/2019 - The primary user interface has received a major update, and now allows all recordings from one subject to be processed simultaneously. A small bug was also fixed, the user manual was updated, and error messages should be more helpful.

AccuSleep is a set of graphical user interfaces for scoring rodent sleep using EEG and EMG recordings. If you use AccuSleep in your research, please cite our publication:

Barger, Z., Frye, C. G., Liu, D., Dan, Y., & Bouchard, K. E. (2019). Robust, automated sleep scoring by a compact neural network with distributional shift correction. PLOS ONE, 14(12), 1–18.

The data used for training and testing AccuSleep are available at https://osf.io/py5eb/

Please contact zekebarger (at) gmail (dot) com with any questions or comments about the software.

1. Make sure your version of MATLAB meets the specifications in the "Requirements" section below.

2. Click the "Clone or download" button and choose "Download ZIP".

3. Extract the contents of the zip file.

4. Add AccuSleep to your MATLAB path. You can do this in the MATLAB "Current Folder" window by right-clicking the AccuSleep folder, clicking "Add to Path" --> "Selected Folders and Subfolders", then running the command savepath in the Command Window.

To get started, run AccuSleep_GUI and click the "User manual" button, check out the video walkthrough, or run doc AccuSleep_instructions for a full explanation of these functions and the types of input they require.

• MATLAB version 2017b or later
• Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox
• Deep Learning Toolbox
• Signal Processing Toolbox
• Image Processing Toolbox

AccuSleep_GUI provides an interface for most of the functions in this package, but if you want to batch process recordings from multiple subjects, you can call the required functions yourself.

• AccuSleep_GUI A user interface for labeling sleep states, either manually or automatically
• AccuSleep_viewer A user interface for manually labeling sleep states
• AccuSleep_classify Automatically labels sleep states using a pre-trained neural network
• AccuSleep_train Trains a neural network for labeling sleep states
• createCalibrationData Generates a file that is required for automatic sleep state labeling for a given combination of subject and recording equipment

• Make sure the required toolboxes are installed.
• Using more data for calibration will produce better results. However, labeling more than a few minutes of each state probably isn't necessary.
• If you create a calibration file using one recording, then use it to score another recording automatically, and the accuracy is low, the signals might be different between the two recordings. In this case, it's best to create a new calibration file.
• If your accuracy seems low no matter what you do, you may wish to train your own network.
• Make sure to click the 'Help' button in AccuSleep_viewer for a list of keyboard shortcuts.
• Make sure to run doc AccuSleep_instructions and read the documentation before using this software.
• If your recordings are very long (>48 hours) and are not displaying properly, try splitting them into smaller files.
• Ensure the epoch length associated with the labels, calibration data, and trained network are the same.
• Networks trained using MATLAB 2019a or later do not seem to be backward compatible with earlier versions of MATLAB. However, networks trained on 2018b or earlier seem to be forward compatible.
• Make sure the recordings are free of NaN and Inf values.

We would like to thank Franz Weber for creating an early version of the manual labeling interface.

Primary interface (AccuSleep_GUI)

Interface for manual sleep scoring (AccuSleep_viewer)