Optimized echo state networks with leaky integrator neurons for EEG-based microsleep detection

The performance of a microsleep detection system was calculated in terms of its ability to detect the behavioural microsleep state (1-s epochs) from spectral features derived from 16-channel EEG sampled at 256 Hz. Best performance from a single classifier model was achieved using leaky integrator neurons on an echo state network (ESN) classifier with a mean phi correlation (φ) of 0.38 and accuracy of 67.3%. A single classifier model of ESN with sigmoidal inputs achieved φ of 0.20 and accuracy of 48.5% and a single classifier model of linear discriminant analysis (LDA) achieved φ of 0.31 and accuracy of 53.6%. However, combining the output of several single classifier models (ensemble learning) via stacked generalization of the ESN with leaky integrator neurons approach led to a substantial increase in detection performance of φ of 0.51 and accuracy of 81.2%. This is a substantial improvement of our previous best result of φ = 0.39 on this data with LDA and stacked generalization.