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  • Title: Automated detection and classification of sleep-disordered breathing from conventional polysomnography data.
    Author: Taha BH, Dempsey JA, Weber SM, Badr MS, Skatrud JB, Young TB, Jacques AJ, Seow KC.
    Journal: Sleep; 1997 Nov; 20(11):991-1001. PubMed ID: 9456464.
    Abstract:
    Efficient automated detection of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) from routine polysomnography (PSG) data is made difficult by the availability of only indirect measurements of breathing. The approach we used to overcome this limitation was to incorporate pulse oximetry into the definitions of apnea and hypopnea. In our algorithm, 1) we begin with the detection of desaturation as a fall in oxyhemoglobin saturation level of 2% or greater once a rate of descent greater than 0.1% per second (but less than 4% per second) has been achieved and then ask if an apnea or hypopnea was responsible; 2) an apnea is detected if there is a period of no breathing, as indicated by sum respiratory inductive plethysmography (RIP), lasting at least 10 seconds and coincident with the desaturation event; and 3) if there is breathing, a hypopnea is defined as a minimum of three breaths showing at least 20% reduction in sum RIP magnitude from the immediately preceding breath followed by a return to at least 90% of that "baseline" breath. Our evaluation of this algorithm using 10 PSG records containing 1,938 SDB events showed strong event-by-event agreement with manual scoring by an experienced polysomnographer. On the basis of manually verified computer desaturations, detection sensitivity and specificity percentages were, respectively, 73.6 and 90.8% for apneas and 84.1 and 86.1% for hypopneas. Overall, 93.1% of the manually detected events were detected by the algorithm. We have designed an efficient algorithm for detecting and classifying SDB events that emulates manual scoring with high accuracy.
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