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    Area of Science:

    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Pediatric Pulmonology
    • Signal Processing

    Background:

    • Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) identification can utilize oxygen saturation (SpO2) signal regularity.
    • Previous studies indicate lower SpO2 regularity in children with SDB compared to NonSDB.
    • Non-linear methods like approximate entropy (ApEn), sample entropy (SamEn), and Lempel-Ziv (LZ) complexity are used to measure SpO2 regularity.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the impact of different SpO2 resolutions on regularity measurements.
    • To determine if SpO2 resolution affects the ability to differentiate between SDB and NonSDB children.
    • To validate findings using polysomnography (PSG) data.

    Main Methods:

    • SpO2 signals from children with and without SDB were analyzed.
    • Signals were processed at native 0.1% resolution and artificially rounded to 1% resolution.
    • SpO2 regularity was calculated using ApEn, SamEn, and LZ complexity with a 5-min sliding window.

    Main Results:

    • Different SpO2 resolutions yielded significantly different regularity results.
    • 0.1% resolution showed no significant difference between SDB and NonSDB groups.
    • 1% resolution (artificial and PSG-derived) revealed significantly lower SpO2 regularity in SDB children.

    Conclusions:

    • SpO2 signal resolution critically influences the outcomes of regularity analysis (ApEn, SamEn, LZ).
    • The observed differences in SpO2 regularity between SDB and NonSDB groups are dependent on the signal's resolution.
    • Accurate SpO2 resolution is crucial for reliable SDB detection using regularity measures in pediatric populations.