Detection of sleep apnoea in infants using ECG and oximetry signals

Gregory Cohen, Philip De Chazal

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    Abstract

    We present a study into the usage of combined night-time electrocardiogram (ECG) and pulse oximetry recordings to automatically detect sleep apnoea in infants. The study draws upon the polysomnogram recordings found inside the National Collaborative Home Infant Monitoring Evaluation (CHIME) database. Viable ECG data, pulse oximetry data and scored respiratory information was extracted for 288 subjects from this dataset and time-aligned to 30s epochs. Features were extracted from both the ECG and the pulse-oximetry data and were then used alongside the scored respiratory information to train a classification model based on linear discriminants. Performance of the classifier was evaluated using a leave-one-out cross-validation scheme and an accuracy of 82.6% was achieved, with a specificity of 82.6% and a sensitivity of 58.0%.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationComputing in Cardiology 2013. Vol. 40: September 22-25, 2013, Zaragoza, Spain
    PublisherComputing in Cardiology/IEEE
    Pages859-862
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Print)9781479908844
    Publication statusPublished - 2013
    EventComputing in Cardiology -
    Duration: 22 Sept 2013 → …

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    ISSN (Print)2325-8861

    Conference

    ConferenceComputing in Cardiology
    Period22/09/13 → …

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