Apnea MedAssist: Real-time Sleep Apnea Monitor Using Single-Lead ECG

• Published in: IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 416 - 427
• Main Authors: Bsoul, Majdi, Minn, Hlaing, Tamil, Lakshman
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.05.2011
• Subjects: Adult; Algorithms; Apnea monitor; ECG; Electrocardiography; Electrocardiography - methods; Feature extraction; Female; home care; Humans; Male; Monitoring; Polysomnography; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Sleep apnea; Sleep Apnea Syndromes - diagnosis; Sleep Apnea Syndromes - physiopathology; Smart phones; smartphone; Static VAr compensators; Support vector machines; support vector machines (SVMs)

We have developed a low-cost, real-time sleep apnea monitoring system ``Apnea MedAssist" for recognizing obstructive sleep apnea episodes with a high degree of accuracy for both home and clinical care applications. The fully automated system uses patient's single channel nocturnal ECG to e...