System and Method for Estimating Sleep Stage

A mechanism for estimating sleep stages of an subject’s sleep session using a machine-learning algorithm. An EOG signal, produced during the sleep session, is obtained. For each of a plurality of samples, a subset of one or more other samples is obtained. The subset is identified by determining temporal dependencies between the sample and the other sample(s) using temporal information trained into the machine-learning algorithm. Each sample is processed using its corresponding subset of one or more other samples to produce an estimate sleep stage for the sample. This produces a plurality of sleep stages for the sleep session of the subject.