Diagnosis of sleep apnea by evaluating points distribution in poincare plot of RR intervals

Sleep apnea detection using ECG-derived parameters is non-invasive and inexpensive. This article presents novel ECG-derived features to be used in conjunction with existing standard features for improving the detection of sleep apnea. The features presented here were derived using Poincare plots of...

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Published in2017 Computing in Cardiology (CinC) pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors Rezaei, Shahab, Moharreri, Sadaf, Ghiasi, Shadi, Parvaneh, Saman
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published CCAL 01.09.2017
Subjects
Electrocardiography
Feature extraction
Heart rate variability
Sleep apnea
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Summary:Sleep apnea detection using ECG-derived parameters is non-invasive and inexpensive. This article presents novel ECG-derived features to be used in conjunction with existing standard features for improving the detection of sleep apnea. The features presented here were derived using Poincare plots of RR intervals. Global features are based on counting number of points above, below, and on the identity line in Poincare plot. Furthermore, local features are based on point to point variations relative to the identity line (i.e., temporal information in Poincare plot). Performance of features in detection of apnea was evaluated using k-nearest neighbor, self-organizing map, and multilayer perceptron neural network. The accuracy of classifiers on test set was respectively 88.89%, 77.77%, and 100%.
ISSN:2325-887X
DOI:10.22489/CinC.2017.158-398