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Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Signal Processing
  • Cardiology

Background:

  • Sleep apnea is a common disorder linked to serious health issues.
  • Current screening methods like polysomnography are costly and complex.
  • There is a need for accessible, efficient sleep apnea detection tools.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a simple and efficient automated method for sleep apnea detection.
  • To utilize single-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) signals for this purpose.
  • To evaluate the performance of the proposed technique against existing methods.

Main Methods:

  • Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) to analyze ECG-derived signals.
  • Extraction of features such as spectral entropies, interquartile range, and energy.
  • Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for feature vector dimensionality reduction.
  • Classification using K-nearest neighbor (KNN) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA).

Main Results:

  • Achieved 87.5% accuracy in per-segment classification using KNN.
  • Reached 100% accuracy in per-recording classification with LDA, outperforming existing methods.
  • Demonstrated excellent agreement between estimated and reference apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) values.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed VMD-based technique effectively detects sleep apnea from single-lead ECG.
  • The method shows potential for developing cost-effective, home-based sleep apnea screening systems.
  • This approach offers a promising alternative to traditional polysomnography for initial screening.