# Citation

If you use this code, please cite **both the paper and the software**. A
`CITATION.cff` at the repository root also lets GitHub render a "Cite this
repository" button.

## Paper

```bibtex
@unpublished{gagliardi2026protosleepnet,
  title   = {Prototype-based interpretable sleep staging with physiologically
             meaningful sub-stage pattern discovery},
  author  = {Gagliardi, Guido and Garcia Ciudad, Javier and Micca, Letizia and
             Kornum, Birgitte Rahbek and Gilat, Moran and Alfeo, Antonio Luca and
             Cimino, Mario G. C. A. and De Vos, Maarten},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.21203/rs.3.rs-9169987/v1},
  note    = {Under review at npj Digital Medicine. Research Square preprint}
}
```

## Software

```bibtex
@software{protosleepnet,
  title     = {ProtoSleepNet: prototype-based interpretable sleep staging},
  author    = {Gagliardi, Guido},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  url       = {https://github.com/guidogagl/protosleepnet}
}
```

:::{note}
Author list, ORCIDs, the publication year and the Zenodo software DOI are filled
in at acceptance — see `CITATION.cff` for the current, machine-readable record.
:::

## Built on physioex

This work builds on [physioex](https://github.com/guidogagl/physioex) v2.0.0,
which provides the model, data loaders, preprocessing, splits, seeds and
metrics.

```bibtex
@software{physioex,
  title   = {PhysioEx: a Python library for explainable sleep staging},
  author  = {Gagliardi, Guido},
  version = {2.0.0},
  url     = {https://github.com/guidogagl/physioex}
}
```

License: MIT.