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Automated recognition of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome using support vector machine classifier.

TitleAutomated recognition of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome using support vector machine classifier.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsAl-Angari, HM, Sahakian, AV
JournalIEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed
Volume16
Issue3
Pagination463-8
Date Published2012 May
ISSN1558-0032
KeywordsAdolescent, Adult, Case-Control Studies, Child, Heart Rate, Humans, Middle Aged, Oximetry, Oxygen, Pattern Recognition, Automated, Polysomnography, Respiratory Rate, Sleep Apnea, Obstructive, Support Vector Machine
Abstract<p>Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder that causes pauses of breathing due to repetitive obstruction of the upper airways of the respiratory system. The effect of this phenomenon can be observed in other physiological signals like the heart rate variability, oxygen saturation, and the respiratory effort signals. In this study, features from these signals were extracted from 50 control and 50 OSA patients from the Sleep Heart Health Study database and implemented for minute and subject classifications. A support vector machine (SVM) classifier was used with linear and second-order polynomial kernels. For the minute classification, the respiratory features had the highest sensitivity while the oxygen saturation gave the highest specificity. The polynomial kernel always had better performance and the highest accuracy of 82.4% (Sen: 69.9%, Spec: 91.4%) was achieved using the combined-feature classifier. For subject classification, the polynomial kernel had a clear improvement in the oxygen saturation accuracy as the highest accuracy of 95% was achieved by both the oxygen saturation (Sen: 100%, Spec: 90.2%) and the combined-feature (Sen: 91.8%, Spec: 98.0%). Further analysis of the SVM with other kernel types might be useful for optimizing the classifier with the appropriate features for an OSA automated detection algorithm.</p>
DOI10.1109/TITB.2012.2185809
Alternate JournalIEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed
PubMed ID22287247
PubMed Central IDPMC4487628
Grant ListU01 HL080295 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
HHSN268200800007C / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01HC55222 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01HC85086 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
HHSN268201200036C / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01HC85082 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01HC85083 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01HC85079 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
R01 AG023629 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States
N01HC85080 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01HC85081 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States