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Long short-term memory for apnea detection based on Heart Rate Variability.

D Novák¹, K Mucha, T Al-Ani

¹Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic. xnovakd1@labe.felk.cvut.cz

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This study introduces a simple, comfortable, and affordable method for diagnosing sleep apnea using only electrocardiogram (ECG) signals and artificial intelligence. The AI model achieved an 82.1% success rate, aiding in sleep disorder diagnosis.

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Area of Science:

Biomedical Engineering
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Sleep Medicine

Background:

Current sleep apnea diagnostics can be complex and costly.
There is a need for simple, accessible, and affordable diagnostic methodologies.
Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals contain valuable physiological information.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a cost-effective and user-friendly framework for sleep apnea diagnosis.
To leverage artificial intelligence for automated analysis of ECG signals for apnea detection.
To reduce the burden of sleep disorder screening.

Main Methods:

Utilized Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA) for feature extraction from ECG signals.
Employed a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to analyze temporal dependencies in the extracted features.
Evaluated the framework on the Physionet Challenge 2000 database.

Main Results:

The proposed framework achieved a successful classification rate of 82.1%.
Demonstrated high diagnostic performance with a sensitivity of 85.5% and specificity of 80.1%.
Indicated the potential of ECG-based AI analysis for sleep apnea screening.

Conclusions:

An automated ECG analysis framework using HRV, DFA, and LSTM ANNs is effective for sleep apnea diagnosis.
This methodology offers a simple, comfortable, and cheap approach to sleep disorder screening.
The findings support the use of AI and ECG in developing accessible diagnostic tools for sleep apnea.