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Haslaile Abdullah1, Gerard Holland, Irena Cosic
1RMIT University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. s3209714@student.rmit.edu.au
Abstract:
Sleep apnoea is a sleep breathing disorder which causes changes in cardiac and neuronal activity and discontinuities in sleep pattern when observed via electrocardiogram (ECG) and electroencephalogram (EEG). This paper presents a pilot study result of assessing the correlation between EEG frequency bands and ECG Heart Rate Variability (HRV) in normal and sleep apnoea human clinical patients at different sleep stages. In sleep apnoea patients, the results have shown that EEG delta, sigma and beta bands exhibited a strong correlation with cardiac HRV parameters at different sleep stages.
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