P09: Pre-Congress: Sleep Neurophysiology - Pearls and Pitfalls of Sleep Neurophysiology: From Manual Scoring to Automatic Analysis

Pearls and Pitfalls of Sleep Neurophysiology: From Manual Scoring to Automatic Analysis

Pearls and Pitfalls of Sleep Neurophysiology: From Manual Scoring to Automatic Analysis delivers a clinically focused, expert-led update on how to interpret sleep with precision. Moving beyond standard scoring, this course highlights the EEG and EMG features that truly matter, the pitfalls that commonly lead to misinterpretation, and the neurophysiological insights that improve diagnostic confidence.
The course integrates perspectives on traditional visual scoring and emerging automated approaches, addressing both their methodological foundations and practical limitations. Participants will acquire a structured framework for combining manual and automated analyses within routine clinical workflows, enhancing both accuracy and interpretability of sleep recordings.

Core concepts of sleep neurophysiology
Jesús Rodríguez Quintana

Sleep scoring
Giuseppe Lanza, MD, PhD

Sleep EEG
Milena Pavlova, MD

EMG analysis
Ambra Stefani, MD PhD

What automatic analysis can and cannot do
Ki-Young Jung

How to integrate automated outputs in clinical workflow
TBD