The Sleep-Wake Classification Performance of Pediatric-Trained Machine Learning Algorithms for Raw Accelerometer Data

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Study Objectives Actigraphy sleep-wake classification methods increasingly seek to leverage raw acceleration data and machine-learning-based classification, but performance evaluation in pediatrics is limited. We trained machine-learning models using pediatric data and compared their sleep-wake classification performance with existing algorithms for children. Methods Sixty-five children (46% female, ages 5.3–17.7 years) completed in-lab overnight polysomnography and wore a GENEActiv device on their non-dominant wrist. The acceleration data were converted into 30-second epochs and aligned with physician-scored sleep-wake data from electroencephalography. Eight machine-learning models were trained using leave-one-subject-out cross-validation. Epoch-by-epoch analyses generated performance metrics (e.g., balanced accuracy [BA]) and discrepancy analyses provided overall sleep duration bias estimates. The combination of highest performance and least bias was used to rank using Euclidean distance scores - where a lower score represents closer to perfect performance and zero bias. For benchmarking, we included GGIR sleep scoring algorithms and an adult trained random forest classifier. Results Overall, 560.1 hours of polysomnography and actigraphy data were collected (74.4% of epochs were scored as sleep). The pediatric-trained local-global long-short term memory (LSTM) classifier had the most optimal epoch-by-epoch performance (e.g., BA=0.85, sensitivity=0.88, specificity=0.83, ROC-AUC=0.95, and Cohen’s kappa=0.67). These metrics exceeded that of an adult-trained random forest classifier and GGIR-based algorithms. Discrepancy analyses revealed that overall sleep duration was underestimated by an average of 25 minutes using the LSTM classifier with no proportional bias. Conclusions We trained eight pediatric sleep-wake classifiers that had a strong ability to detect sleep and wake, with the LSTM classifier being most optimal.
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Authors Pin-Wei Chen, Christopher M. Cielo︎, Olivia Walch, Morgan Mcdonald, Peter X K Song, Cathy A. Goldstein, Jennette Palcic Moreno, Erica C. Jansen, Jonathan A. Mitchell
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Journal Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung
Year 2026
DOI
10.1093/sleep/zsag282
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https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsag282
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