Artificial intelligence in sleep medicine: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine position statement.

Journal: Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
PMID: 32022674

Abstract

Sleep medicine is well positioned to benefit from advances that use big data to create artificially intelligent computer programs. One obvious initial application in the sleep disorders center is the assisted (or enhanced) scoring of sleep and associated events during polysomnography (PSG). This position statement outlines the potential opportunities and limitations of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into the practice of sleep medicine. Additionally, although the most apparent and immediate application of AI in our field is the assisted scoring of PSG, we propose potential clinical use cases that transcend the sleep laboratory and are expected to deepen our understanding of sleep disorders, improve patient-centered sleep care, augment day-to-day clinical operations, and increase our knowledge of the role of sleep in health at a population level.

Authors

  • Cathy A Goldstein
    Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • Richard B Berry
    Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
  • David T Kent
    Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
  • David A Kristo
    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • Azizi A Seixas
    Department of Population Health, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Langone Health, New York, New York.
  • Susan Redline
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University Boston, MA.
  • M Brandon Westover
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Fariha Abbasi-Feinberg
    Sleep Medicine, Millennium Physician Group, Fort Myers, Florida.
  • R Nisha Aurora
    Department of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
  • Kelly A Carden
    Saint Thomas Medical Partners - Sleep Specialists, Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Douglas B Kirsch
    Sleep Medicine, Atrium Health, Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • Raman K Malhotra
    Sleep Medicine Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Jennifer L Martin
    David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California.
  • Eric J Olson
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center for Sleep Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
  • Kannan Ramar
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center for Sleep Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
  • Carol L Rosen
    Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals - Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio.
  • James A Rowley
    Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
  • Anita V Shelgikar
    Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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