Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2020
Sleep disorders have become more common due to the modern lifestyle and stress. The most severe case of sleep disorders called apnea is characterized by a complete breaking block, leading to awakening and subsequent sleep disturbances. The automatic ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2020
The aim of this study was to design a new deep learning framework for end-to-end processing of polysomnograms. This framework can be trained to analyze whole-night polysomnograms without the limitations of and bias towards clinical scoring guidelines...
Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Apr 15, 2020
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 associ...
Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Nov 15, 2019
STUDY OBJECTIVES: Home sleep apnea testing (HSAT) is an efficient and cost-effective method of diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). However, nondiagnostic HSAT necessitates additional tests that erode these benefits, delaying diagnoses and incre...
Sleep
Oct 21, 2019
STUDY OBJECTIVES: Polysomnography (PSG) scoring is labor intensive and suffers from variability in inter- and intra-rater reliability. Automated PSG scoring has the potential to reduce the human labor costs and the variability inherent to this task. ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Interest in sleep has been growing in the last decades, considering its benefits for well-being, but also to diagnose sleep troubles. The gold standard to monitor sleep consists of recording the course of many physiological parameters during a whole ...
Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Aug 15, 2019
STUDY OBJECTIVES: Portable devices for home sleep apnea testing are often limited by their inability to discriminate sleep/wake status, possibly resulting in underestimations. Tracheal sound (TS), which can be visualized as a spectrogram, carries inf...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Pediatric sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) is a highly prevalent breathing disorder that is related to many negative consequences for the children's health and quality of life when it remains untreated. The gold standard for pediatric SAHS diagno...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Novel approaches are needed to accurately classify and monitor sleep patterns in older adults, particularly those with cognitive impairment and non-normative sleep. Traditional methods ignore underlying sleep architecture in these patient populations...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Sleep staging, a process of identifying the sleep stages associated with polysomnography (PSG) epochs, plays an important role in sleep monitoring and diagnosing sleep disorders. We present in this work a model fusion approach to automate this task. ...