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frederikdweber

frederikdweber
Joined Sep 2016
frederikdweber
Joined Sep 2016

Hi, first I want to express my sincere gratitude of what people have created here for sharing sleepdata, it is really astounding. And I will try to contribute to this in the near future with own data, further software and more annotation data for sleep EEG.

I am currently trying to analyze (detecting slow oscillations, sleep spindles etc.) the SHHS EEG data. However, I realized that the data specifications (also in the manual) and the edf files indicate that the data range for the EEG, EOG channels is only +-125 µV (250 µV scale range), i.e. the data has a cutoff at +125 µV and -125 µV; the EMG is even cut at +-31.25 µV.

Given that the signal was high-pass filtered at 0.15 Hz, and by looking at the data, a lot of this cutoff seems to make the data very limited for further EEG analyses. For example many slow waves are just "cut off" at the top and bottom (since many typically slow waves reach beyond this scale, even in older subjects). I wonder how the data was adequately scored giving this limitation, and this could have also perturbing influences on the power analysis, right?

Was this handled already in some way? And, was this limitation truly at recording, or does there exist raw data without this limitation, or did I miss anything regarding this data? Or is there some SHHS data without this limitation?

I do not know if this is a known issue, but I could not find anyone to bring this up in the forum before, and it seemed rather critical to me regarding the usability of the EEG data.

Best, Freddy