Abstract
We evaluate the performance of an unobtrusive sleep
monitoring system in the detection of the sleep apnea-
hypopnea syndrome (SAHS). The proposed system is a
pressure bed sensor (PBS) that incorporates multiple
pressure sensors into a bed mattress to measure several
physiological signals of the sleeping subject:
respiration; heart rate; and body movements. An automatic
algorithm is developed to calculate a respiratory event
index (REI). The recordings of 24 patients with suspected
sleep problems are analyzed, and the results are compared
with the gold standard methods; first with manual scoring
of polysomnography to calculate the apnea-hypopnea index
(AHI), and second with automatic detection of REI from
the respiratory inductive plethysmography belts. The
correlation coefficient between AHI and REI from PBS is
up to 0.93. Evaluating the ability of PBS in the
diagnosis of pathologic (AHI = 5) and nonpathologic (AHI
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1935-1943 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement |
Volume | 64 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- Polysomnography (PSG)
- pressure bed sensor (PBS)
- respiration monitoring
- sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (SAHS)
- sleep monitoring
- unattended portable monitor
- unobtrusive measure