Learning transferable human physiology from two million hours of sleep with SleepFM-2

📅 2026-09-06
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研究通过SleepFM-2模型分析超过两百万小时的多模态生理数据,改进了疾病预测、睡眠评分及事件检测,并能跨多种传感器和主观体验迁移。
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Sleep provides a nightly window into health by capturing coordinated activity across the brain, heart, muscles and respiratory system. We introduce SleepFM-2, a sleep foundation model developed and evaluated on 282,511 polysomnography recordings from 26 cohorts, including 235,865 used for pretraining. These data span more than two million hours of multimodal physiology. Compared with SleepFM, SleepFM-2 improves disease prediction and sleep scoring, supports arousal, limb movement and respiratory event detection, and transfers to wearable sensing and subjective sleep phenotypes. A model combining its PSG representation with age, sex and BMI met a prespecified discrimination and significance criterion for 215 subsequently recorded EHR phenotypes in two held-out cohorts, including one health system unseen during pretraining. For 155 phenotypes, the PSG representation added reproducible information beyond demographics. SleepFM-2 also outperformed a 480-feature baseline derived from the same recordings. Its disease scores revealed a reproducible principal component associated with reduced sigma-band spatial coupling and increased hypnodensity entropy. The frozen encoder performed within the observed range of expert scorers for sleep events and transferred to wakeful EEG, headband and in-ear EEG, wrist PPG and wrist accelerometry. It improved sleep staging across six accelerometry cohorts and achieved disease-prediction performance in UK Biobank similar to models pretrained directly on accelerometry. Finally, SleepFM-2 captured aspects of subjective sleep not recovered by conventional PSG summaries, particularly reports of the recorded night. These results show that multimodal sleep physiology can provide a transferable representation of human health across diseases, clinical tasks, sensors and subjective experience.
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sleep physiology
disease prediction
health representation
multimodal data
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multimodal sleep physiology
transfer learning
disease prediction
sleep scoring
wearable sensing
Rahul Thapa
Rahul Thapa
Graduate Student, Stanford University
Machine LearningHealthcare AIData Science
Christopher Sun
Christopher Sun
Unknown affiliation
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William Theodor Lehn-Schioler
BrainCapture, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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Sophia Claire Kivelson
Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Umaer Hanif
Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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Hyatt Moore IV
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Harrison G. Zhang
Harrison G. Zhang
MD-PhD Candidate at Stanford University
Machine LearningStatisticsComputational BiologyPrecision MedicineGlobal Health
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Hafsa Ahmed
Hvidovre Hospital, Capital Region of Denmark, Hvidovre, Denmark
M
Marcus Dige
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Niels R. Lorenzen
Pioneer Center for SMARTbiomed, National Research Center for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Elisabeth Roxane M. Heremans
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
A
Adrien Specht
Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Ulysse Gimenez
Data Science, BioSerenity, Paris, France
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Robin Guillard
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Andreas Brink-Kjaer
Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
James Zou
James Zou
Stanford University
Machine learningcomputational biologycomputational healthstatisticsbiotech
Emmanuel Mignot
Emmanuel Mignot
Stanford University Professor
sleepimmunologygeneticsneuroscienceengineering