Saturday, January 10, 2026

Stanford Researchers Build SleepFM Clinical: A Multimodal Sleep Foundation AI Model to accurately predict over 130 Disease conditions after one night of sleep

Amazing stuff! And this is only the beginning! We are deciphering the "language of sleep"!

Sweet dreams! 

"A team of Stanford Medicine researchers have introduced SleepFM Clinical, a multimodal sleep foundation model that learns from clinical polysomnography and predicts long term disease risk from a single night of sleep. ..."

"... SleepFM analyzed more than 1,000 disease categories in the health records and found 130 that could be predicted with reasonable accuracy by a patient’s sleep data. The model’s predictions were particularly strong for cancers, pregnancy complications, circulatory conditions and mental disorders, achieving a C-index higher than 0.8. ...

“We were pleasantly surprised that for a pretty diverse set of conditions, the model is able to make informative predictions,”  ..."

From the abstract:
"Sleep is a fundamental biological process with broad implications for physical and mental health, yet its complex relationship with disease remains poorly understood.
Polysomnography (PSG)—the gold standard for sleep analysis—captures rich physiological signals but is underutilized due to challenges in standardization, generalizability and multimodal integration.
To address these challenges, we developed SleepFM, a multimodal sleep foundation model trained with a new contrastive learning approach that accommodates multiple PSG configurations.
Trained on a curated dataset of over 585,000 hours of PSG recordings from approximately 65,000 participants across several cohorts, SleepFM produces latent sleep representations that capture the physiological and temporal structure of sleep and enable accurate prediction of future disease risk.
From one night of sleep, SleepFM accurately predicts 130 conditions with a C-Index of at least 0.75 (Bonferroni-corrected P < 0.01), including all-cause mortality (C-Index, 0.84), dementia (0.85), myocardial infarction (0.81), heart failure (0.80), chronic kidney disease (0.79), stroke (0.78) and atrial fibrillation (0.78).
Moreover, the model demonstrates strong transfer learning performance on a dataset from the Sleep Heart Health Study—a dataset that was excluded from pretraining—and performs competitively with specialized sleep-staging models such as U-Sleep and YASA on common sleep analysis tasks, achieving mean F1 scores of 0.70–0.78 for sleep staging and accuracies of 0.69 and 0.87 for classifying sleep apnea severity and presence.
This work shows that foundation models can learn the language of sleep from multimodal sleep recordings, enabling scalable, label-efficient analysis and disease prediction."

Stanford Researchers Build SleepFM Clinical: A Multimodal Sleep Foundation AI Model for 130+ Disease Prediction - MarkTechPost

New AI model predicts disease risk while you sleep (original news release) "Stanford Medicine scientists and their colleagues created the first artificial intelligence model that can predict more than 100 health conditions from one night’s sleep."


Fig. 1: Overview of SleepFM framework.


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