Detection of Micro-sleep Patterns Used in Automatic Slow Wave Sleep Deprivation

Sleep deprivation can be used to investigate the physiology and pathology of human sleep. Previously, human sleep deprivation has been done manually by a sleep expert performing visual online interpretation of the electroencephalogram (EEG). When the subject enters the stage of sleep to deprive the sleep expert disturbs the sleep manually by touching the subject or by activating some kind of stimulation. This is a time consuming task and might cause large variations in the results.