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  • Cardiology
  • Sleep Medicine

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  • Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a prevalent condition affecting sleep quality and cardiovascular health.
  • Accurate detection of apnea episodes is crucial for diagnosis and treatment.
  • Current detection methods may require complex instrumentation or polysomnography.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a model-based tool for detecting obstructive apnea episodes using single-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) features.
  • To assess the performance of dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) in identifying apnea events.
  • To explore the trade-off between DBN complexity and apnea detection accuracy.

Main Methods:

  • Obstructive apnea was induced in anesthetized rats using an experimental model.
  • Morphology-based ECG markers and beat-to-beat intervals (RR) were extracted.
  • Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBNs) were trained using these ECG features for apnea detection.
  • A filtering approach was used to infer apnea probability signals and classify 15-second epochs.

Main Results:

  • Fifth-order DBN models demonstrated a good balance between complexity and performance.
  • The best overall performance achieved Acc = 81.3%, Se = 69.8%, and Sp = 81.5% using RR and R-wave downslope (Ds) markers.
  • A global threshold of 0.2 provided optimal classification across tested models.

Conclusions:

  • Multivariate models utilizing DBNs are effective for detecting obstructive apnea episodes in short ECG segments.
  • This approach offers a powerful tool for estimating the number of apnea events within a given period.
  • The proposed method shows promise for non-invasive and accessible OSA detection.