Publications

2025

Kasties V, Meier N, Moser N, Sassenburg R, Karlen W, Ferster ML, Fattinger S, Maric A, Huber R. Optimizing automated phase-targeted auditory stimulation protocols for procedural memory consolidation during sleep in a home setting. SLEEP Advances. 2025 Oct.; 6(4):zpaf073.      [DOI]      [File] 
Semkiv K, Zhang J, Ferster ML, Karlen W. Artifact detection and localization in single-channel mobile EEG for sleep research using deep learning and attention mechanisms. arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.08469. 2025;      [DOI] 
Schreiner SJ, Horlacher J, Fattinger S, Renerts K, Brogli L, Kämpf L, Scandella M, Poryazova R, Valko PO, Ferster L, others . Auditory Enhancement of Sleep Slow Waves in People with Parkinson’s Disease: A Proof-of-Concept Study. medRxiv. 2025; 2025—01.      [DOI] 
Leach S, Fattinger S, Krugliakova E, Skorucak J, Sousouri G, Snipes S, Schühle S, Ferster ML, Da Poian G, Karlen W, others . Local modulation of sleep slow waves depends on timing between auditory stimuli. bioRxiv. 2025; 2025—03.      [DOI] 
Semkiv K, Karlen W. Minimal-Input Deep Learning for Remote Screening of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder. MedRXiv. 2025;      [DOI] 
Vianello L, Short M, Manczurowsky J, Küçüktabak EB, Tommaso FD, Noccaro A, Bandini L, Clark S, Fiorenza A, Lunardini F, Canton A, Gandolla M, Pedrocchi ALG, Ambrosini E, Murie-Fernández M, Román CB, Tornero J, Leon N, Sawers A, Patton J, Formica D, Tagliamonte NL, Rauter G, Baur K, Just F, Hasson CJ, Novak VD, Pons JL. Robot-Mediated Physical Human–Human Interaction in Rehabilitation: A Position Paper. IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. 2025; 1—16.      [DOI]      [File] 
Huwiler S, Ferster ML, Brogli L, Huber R, Karlen W, Lustenberger C. Sleep and cardiac autonomic modulation in older adults: Insights from an at-home study with auditory deep sleep stimulation. Journal of Sleep Research. 2025; 34(2):e14328.      [DOI] 

2024

Just F, Ahkami B, Ortiz-Catalan M. Walking Mode-depending Improvements of Locomotion Detection through Rejection Based Post-Processing. In: 2024 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). Orlando, FL, USA: IEEE; 2024 Jul.. p. 1—4.      [DOI]      [File] 
Al-Tashi M, Lennartson B, Ortiz-Catalan M, Just F. Classroom-ready open-source educational exoskeleton for biomedical and control engineering. at - Automatisierungstechnik. 2024 May; 72(5):460—475.      [DOI]      [File] 
Leach S, Krugliakova E, Sousouri G, Snipes S, Skorucak J, Schühle S, Müller M, Ferster ML, Da Poian G, Karlen W, others . Acoustically evoked K-complexes together with sleep spindles boost verbal declarative memory consolidation in healthy adults. Scientific Reports. 2024; 14(1):19184.      [DOI] 
Aziri F, Albrecht J, Altermatt S, Baumann C, Brotschi B, Ferster ML, Karlen W, Krayenbuhl N, Merakli SM, Tuura R, others . Assessing sleep structure in children after mild traumatic brain injury with at-home EEG monitoring over multiple nights. In: JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH. 2024.
Earley EJ, Zbinden J, Munoz-Novoa M, Just F, Vasan C, Holtz AS, Emadeldin M, Kolankowska J, Davidsson B, Thesleff A, Millenaar J, Jönsson S, Cipriani C, Granberg H, Sassu P, Brånemark R, Ortiz-Catalan M. Cutting Edge Bionics in Highly Impaired Individuals: A Case of Challenges and Opportunities. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 2024; 321013—1022.      [DOI]      [File] 
Just F, Ghinami C, Zbinden J, Ortiz-Catalan M. Deployment of Machine Learning Algorithms on Resource-Constrained Hardware Platforms for Prosthetics. IEEE Access. 2024; 1240439—40449.      [DOI]      [File] 
Leach S, Krugliakova E, Sousouri G, Snipes S, Skorucak J, Schühle S, Müller M, Ferster L, Da Poian G, Karlen W, others . Down-phase-targeted auditory stimulation as a technique to assess the relationship between characteristic sleep oscillations and memory consolidation. In: JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH. 2024.
Semkiv K, Karlen W. Extracting digital biomarkers for classifying Parkinson's Disease with voice recordings from mobile phones. 2024;
Kasties V, Meier N, Moser N, Sassenburg R, Karlen W, Ferster ML, Fattinger S, Maric A, Huber R. Longer Interstimulus Intervals Enhance Efficacy of Automated Phase-Targeted Auditory Stimulation on Procedural Memory Consolidation. bioRxiv. 2024; 2024—12.      [DOI] 
Krugliakova E, Volk C, Birnbaum N, Gutjahr D, Gerstenberg M, Ferster M, Da Poian G, Karlen W, Jaramillo V, Huber R. Phase-targeted auditory stimulation during sleep to boost cross-frequency coupling between slow waves and spindles in children with ADHD. Sleep Medicine. 2024; 11525—26.      [DOI] 
Semkiv K, Schreiner SJ, Blaser GE, Baumann CR, Karlen W. Predicting MDS-UPDRS-III score changes using mobile device biomarkers. In: Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering. 2024. p. 575—578.      [DOI] 
Huwiler S, Ferster ML, Brogli L, Huber R, Karlen W, Lustenberger C. Sleep and cardiac autonomic modulation in older adults: Insights from an at-home study with auditory deep sleep stimulation. Journal of Sleep Research. 2024; e14328.      [DOI] 
Moser N, Horlacher J, Schreiner S, Sassenburg R, Ferster M, Kampf L, Mutschler V, Skorucak J, Fattinger S, Karlen W, others . Sleeping soundly: exploring the effect of auditory stimulation during sleep on daytime sleepiness in Parkinson’s disease. Sleep Medicine. 2024; 115S241—S242.
Recher D, Rohde J, Da Poian G, Henninger M, Brogli L, Huber R, Karlen W, Lustenberger C, Kleim B. Targeted memory reactivation during sleep improves emotional memory modulation following imagery rescripting. Translational Psychiatry. 2024; 14(1):490.      [DOI] 
Leach S, Krugliakova E, Sousouri G, Snipes S, Skorucak J, Schühle S, Müller M, Ferster M, Da Poian G, Karlen W, others . The missing link between acoustically evoked K-complexes and verbal memory consolidation during sleep. Sleep Medicine. 2024; 115S199.      [DOI] 
Leach S, Fattinger S, Schühle S, Mueller M, Ferster L, Da Poian G, Karlen W, Huber R. The timing between stimuli matters when modulating slow-wave activity with phase-targeted auditory stimulation during sleep. In: JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH. 2024.      [DOI] 

2023

Ahkami B, Just F, Ortiz-Catalan M. Probability-Based Rejection of Decoding Output Improves the Accuracy of Locomotion Detection During Gait*. In: 2023 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC). Sydney, Australia: IEEE; 2023 Jul.. p. 1—4.      [DOI]      [File] 
Meinke A, Spörri J, Brogli L, Schwab P, Karlen W. Addressing the unresolved challenge of quantifying skiing exposure—A proof of concept using smartphone sensors. Frontiers in sports and active living. 2023; 51157987.      [DOI] 
Schreiner S, Fattinger S, Horlacher J, Da Poian G, Kampf L, Brogli L, Karlen W, Huber R, Baumann C, Maric A. Enhancement of Deep Sleep in People with Parkinson Disease Using Auditory Stimulation of Slow Waves at Home. In: MOVEMENT DISORDERS. 2023. p. S49—S50.
Gumussu TC, Da Poian G, Cortesi S, Karlen W. Real-Time Detection of Sleep Arousals with a Head-Mounted Accelerometer. In: 2023 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC). 2023. p. 1—4.
Garatva P, Terhorst Y, Meßner E, Karlen W, Pryss R, Baumeister H. Smart Sensors for Health Research and Improvement. In: Montag, Christian and Baumeister, Harald, editors. Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2023. p. 395--411.      [DOI]      [File] 
Tilborg PJ, Tolner EA, Meijer OC, Boon MR, Upton TJ, Lightman SL, Karlen W, Terwindt GM, Lammers GJ, Fronczek R. The enigmatic triangle of cluster headache attacks, sleep and the biological clock: rationale and protocol of the CIESTA study. In: CEPHALALGIA. 2023. p. 84—85.

2022

Ming DK, Hernandez B, Sangkaew S, Vuong NL, Lam PK, Nguyet NM, Tam DTH, Trung DT, Tien NTH, Tuan NM, Chau NVV, Tam CT, Chanh HQ, Trieu HT, Simmons CP, Wills B, Georgiou P, Holmes AH, Yacoub S, Vietnam ICU Translational Applications Laboratory (VITAL) investigators} {. Applied Machine Learning for the Risk-Stratification and Clinical Decision Support of Hospitalised Patients with Dengue in Vietnam. PLOS Digital Health. 2022; 1(1):e0000005.      [DOI] 
Coleman J, Ginsburg AS, Macharia WM, Ochieng R, Chomba D, Zhou G, Dunsmuir D, Karlen W, Ansermino JM. Assessment of neonatal respiratory rate variability. Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing. 2022; ahead of print.      [DOI]  [Weblink] 
Lustenberger C, Ferster ML, Huwiler S, Brogli L, Werth E, Huber R, Karlen W. Auditory deep sleep stimulation in older adults at home: a randomized crossover trial. Communications Medicine. 2022; 2(1):30.      [DOI]      [File] 
Schreiner S, Fattinger S, Horlacher J, Da Poian G, Kampf L, Scandella M, Sassenburg R, Jaramillo V, Brogli L, Karlen W, others . Auditory Slow Wave Activity Enhancement during Sleep in Patients with {{Parkinson}} Disease. In: JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH. 2022.
Krugliakova E, Volk C, Ferster M, Da Poian G, Karlen W, Huber R. Auditory Stimulation during Sleep Boosts Slow-Wave-Spindles Coupling in Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). In: JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH. 2022.
Ferster ML, Da Poian G, Menachery K, Schreiner S, Lustenberger C, Maric A, Huber R, Baumann C, Karlen W. Benchmarking real-time algorithms for in-phase auditory stimulation of low amplitude slow waves with wearable EEG devices during sleep. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2022; 69(9):2916-25.      [DOI]      [File] 
Krugliakova E, Skorucak J, Sousouri G, Leach S, Snipes S, Ferster ML, Da Poian G, Karlen W, Huber R. Boosting Recovery during Sleep by Means of Auditory Stimulation. Frontiers in neuroscience. 2022; 16      [DOI] 
Schneider N, Ferster M, Lustenberger C, Schlegel J, Schmid P, Lane L, Karlen W, Huber R, Baumann C, Maric A. Can Phase-Targeted Auditory Stimulation (PTAS) during Sleep Counteract Effects of Chronic Sleep Restriction?. In: JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH. 2022.
Lu P, Ghiasi S, Hagenah J, Hai HB, Hao NV, Khanh PNQ, Khoa LDV,  VC, Thwaites L, Clifton DA, Zhu T. Classification of Tetanus Severity in Intensive-Care Settings for Low-Income Countries Using Wearable Sensing. Sensors. 2022; 22(17):6554.      [DOI] 
Ansermino JM, Ginsburg AS, Dunsmuir D, Karlen W, Gan H, Njeru CM, Dumont GA. Counting: An Imprecise Reference Standard for Respiratory Rate Measurement. Pediatric pulmonology. 2022;      [DOI] 
Scebba G, Zhang J, Catanzaro S, Mihai C, Distler O, Berli M, Karlen W. Detect-and-segment: A deep learning approach to automate wound image segmentation. Informatics in Medicine Unlocked. 2022; 29100884.      [DOI]      [File] 

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