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Multi-Modal Home Sleep Monitoring in Older Adults
Published on: January 26, 2019
A large collection of real-world pediatric sleep studies
Harlin Lee1, Boyue Li1, Shelly DeForte2
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Insights
A new pediatric sleep dataset from Nationwide Children's Hospital (NCH) provides extensive polysomnography and clinical data. This resource accelerates research into children's sleep health and disorders.
Area of Science:
- Pediatric Sleep Medicine
- Clinical Data Science
- Biomedical Informatics
Background:
- Pediatric sleep is vital for health but remains poorly understood.
- Limited access to annotated pediatric sleep data hinders research.
- Existing datasets often lack comprehensive clinical information.
Purpose of the Study:
- To create and release a large-scale, clinically annotated pediatric sleep dataset.
- To facilitate data mining and accelerate research in pediatric sleep.
- To support advancements in sleep scoring and disorder prediction.
Main Methods:
- Compilation of 3,984 polysomnography studies and over 5.6 million clinical observations.
- Data collected from 3,673 unique pediatric patients at Nationwide Children's Hospital (NCH) between 2017-2019.
- Dataset published on Physionet and the National Sleep Research Resource (NSRR).
Main Results:
- The NCH Sleep DataBank offers a novel, large-scale resource focused on pediatric sleep.
- Includes rich physiological and clinical data gathered in a real-world clinical setting.
- Dataset comprises data from 3,673 unique pediatric patients.
Conclusions:
- The NCH Sleep DataBank is a valuable resource for advancing pediatric sleep research.
- Enables new insights through data mining, automatic sleep scoring, and sleep disorder prediction.
- Supports the broader scientific community in understanding pediatric sleep's connection to health.
Abstract:
Despite being crucial to health and quality of life, sleep-especially pediatric sleep-is not yet well understood. This is exacerbated by lack of access to sufficient pediatric sleep data with clinical annotation. In order to accelerate research on pediatric sleep and its connection to health, we create the Nationwide Children's Hospital (NCH) Sleep DataBank and publish it at Physionet and the National Sleep Research Resource (NSRR), which is a large sleep data common with physiological data, clinical data, and tools for analyses. The NCH Sleep DataBank consists of 3,984 polysomnography studies and over 5.6 million clinical observations on 3,673 unique patients between 2017 and 2019 at NCH. The novelties of this dataset include: (1) large-scale sleep dataset suitable for discovering new insights via data mining, (2) explicit focus on pediatric patients, (3) gathered in a real-world clinical setting, and (4) the accompanying rich set of clinical data. The NCH Sleep DataBank is a valuable resource for advancing automatic sleep scoring and real-time sleep disorder prediction, among many other potential scientific discoveries.
