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    Area of Science:

    • Sleep Medicine
    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Cardiorespiratory Monitoring

    Background:

    • Nocturnal pulse oximetry is a simpler alternative to polysomnography for sleep apnea diagnosis.
    • Current methods lack the ability to pinpoint the timing of sleep apnea events.
    • Accurate, real-time detection of apneic events is crucial for effective sleep apnea management.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel strategy for near real-time, automatic detection of apneic events using nocturnal pulse oximetry.
    • To reliably estimate the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) from pulse oximetry data.
    • To provide a more accessible and informative tool for sleep apnea monitoring.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized a dataset of 230 polysomnographic recordings, split into training (138) and testing (92) sets.
    • Extracted quantitative characteristics of blood oxygen saturation fluctuations to define apneic event criteria.
    • Employed regression modeling to estimate the AHI based on detected apneic events.

    Main Results:

    • Achieved 91.0% accuracy and a Cohen's kappa of 0.71 in minute-by-minute apneic segment detection.
    • Estimated AHI with a mean absolute error of 2.30 events/h compared to reference values.
    • Demonstrated high diagnostic accuracy (96.7%) for various AHI cutoff values in identifying sleep apnea.

    Conclusions:

    • Developed an effective strategy for detecting apneic events by analyzing morphometric characteristics of blood oxygen saturation.
    • The proposed method offers a reliable approach for estimating the apnea-hypopnea index.
    • This technique holds potential for home-based, multi-night monitoring and follow-up of sleep apnea patients.