@inproceedings{b5bdd9f3a1844ad29d47a67b8367fdbd,
title = "Spectral Parameters from Pressure Bed Sensor Respiratory Signal to Discriminate Sleep Epochs with Respiratory Events",
abstract = "The Pressure Bed Sensor (PBS), which is presented as a contactless sensor for physiological signals recording, allows the acquisition of respiration movements signal. The aim of the present study is to identify spectral parameters from the PBS respiratory signal that allow the discrimination between normal and abnormal breathing epochs. The nasal airflow and the PBS respiratory signal acquired on 19 subjects were pre-processed in order to obtain their positive envelope signals. Both of them were analyzed by means of an optimized Time-Variant Autoregressive Model (TVAM). Total sleep time was divided into consecutive epochs of 60 s classified as normal and abnormal (at least one apnea or hypopnea). The mean Power Spectral Density (PSD) for each sleep epoch was estimated from the averaged TVAM coefficients. Spectral features were extracted from both the nasal airflow and the PBS respiratory signal. A statistically significant difference (p-value",
keywords = "Non-obtrusive system, Pressure Bed Sensor (PBS), Sleep-Disordered Breathing (SDB), spectral features, Time-Variant Autoregressive Model (TVAM)",
author = "Giulia Tacchino and Guillermina Guerrero and Kortelainen, {Juha M.} and Bianchi, {Anna M.}",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-00846-2_199",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-319-00845-5",
series = "IFMBE Proceedings",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "803--806",
editor = "{Roa Romero}, {Laura M.}",
booktitle = "XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013",
address = "Germany",
note = "13th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013, MEDICON 2013, MEDICON 2013 ; Conference date: 25-09-2013 Through 28-09-2013",
}