| CAP | Cyclic alternating pattern |
| EEG | Electroencephalography |
| CNN | Convolutional neural network |
| TFR | Time-frequency representation |
| STFT | Short-time Fourier transform |
| WVD | Wigner–Ville distribution |
| CAPSLPDB | Cap Sleep Database |
| AASM | American Academy of Sleep Medicine |
| REM | Rapid eye movement |
| PSD | Power spectral density |
| LDA | Linear discriminant analysis |
| SVM | Support vector machines |
| DL | Deep learning |
| LSTM | Long short-term memory |
| SPWVD | Smoothed pseudo-Wigner–Ville distribution |
| SPEC | Spectrogram |
| CT | Cross-terms |
| AT | Auto-terms |
| AF | Ambiguity function |
| TF | Time-frequency |
| SGD | Stochastic gradient descent |
| AWGN | Additive white Gaussian noise |
| EOG | Electrooculogram |
| EMG | Electromyogram |
| ACC | Accuracy |
| TPR | True-positive rate |
| RE | Renyi entropy |
| BOWFB | Biorthogonal wavelet filter bank |