TransGATNet: Hybrid Temporal-Frequency Features with Graph-Attention Transformers for Sleep Staging in OSA Patients
摘要
Automatic sleep staging methods designed on healthy datasets often suffer from performance decline when applied to patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We attribute We attribute this to two factors: First, OSA sleep exhibits atypical inter-stages dependencies that are not captured by short-context models; Second, many prior approaches rely on one or a few channels and thus ignore the rich multichannel relationships present in clinical Polysomnography (PSG) recordings. To address these issues, we propose TransGATNet, which fuses long-term temporal-frequency features using a Graph-Attentional Transformer. Specifically, each TransGAT layer applies a Transformer encoder to capture global channel context, followed by a top-k sparsified graph attention network to isolate the most informative inter-electrode relationships. On the Sleep-EDF-2018 dataset, our TransGATNet achieves 86.8% in accuracy and 81.7% in macro-F1, and it retains 84.2% in accuracy and 81.0% in macro-F1 on our OSA dataset, demonstrating its generalizability on both healthy and OSA populations.