Spectral Parameters from Pressure Bed Sensor Respiratory Signal to Discriminate Sleep Epochs with Respiratory Events

Giulia Tacchino, Guillermina Guerrero, Juha M. Kortelainen, Anna M. Bianchi

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    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
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationXIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013
    EditorsLaura M. Roa Romero
    Place of PublicationCham
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages803-806
    ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-00846-2
    ISBN (Print)978-3-319-00845-5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014
    MoE publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication
    Event13th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013, MEDICON 2013 - Seville, Spain
    Duration: 25 Sept 201328 Sept 2013

    Publication series

    SeriesIFMBE Proceedings
    Volume41
    ISSN1680-0737

    Conference

    Conference13th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013, MEDICON 2013
    Abbreviated titleMEDICON 2013
    Country/TerritorySpain
    CitySeville
    Period25/09/1328/09/13

    Keywords

    • Non-obtrusive system
    • Pressure Bed Sensor (PBS)
    • Sleep-Disordered Breathing (SDB)
    • spectral features
    • Time-Variant Autoregressive Model (TVAM)

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