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    • Sleep Medicine
    • Biomedical Signal Processing
    • Computational Biology

    Background:

    • Manual scoring (MS) is the standard for analyzing cardiorespiratory signals in sleep studies.
    • MS suffers from significant intra- and inter-scorer variability and subjectivity.
    • Consensus methods like majority vote (MV) aim to mitigate MS limitations but have suboptimal accuracy.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce and evaluate expectation-maximization pattern sequence (EM-PSEQ), a novel method for optimal estimation of respiratory patterns.
    • To compare the accuracy of EM-PSEQ against MV and individual scorers (IS) using simulated data.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed EM-PSEQ, an expectation-maximization-based algorithm for pattern sequence estimation.
    • Conducted a simulation study to assess the accuracy of EM-PSEQ, MV, and IS.
    • Measured accuracy using the Fleiss κ statistic, reporting median and 95% confidence intervals.

    Main Results:

    • Individual scorer accuracy remained constant regardless of the number of analyses.
    • MV accuracy showed slow improvement, plateauing after five analyses.
    • EM-PSEQ accuracy rapidly improved, achieving near-perfect results with four analyses and perfect accuracy with 25 analyses.
    • EM-PSEQ demonstrated superior performance compared to MV and IS with minimal computational cost.

    Conclusions:

    • EM-PSEQ offers a significant improvement in the accuracy of manual respiratory analysis.
    • The method is computationally efficient and highly valuable for clinical sleep studies.
    • EM-PSEQ can substantially enhance the reliability of respiratory data analysis in sleep laboratories.