Abstract
Objective
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) causes a pause in airflow with reduced breathing effort. In contrast, central sleep apnea (CSA) event is not accompanied with breathing effort. The aim of this study is to differentiate CSA and OSA events using wavelet packet analysis and support vector machines of ECG signals over 5 s period.
Methods
Eight level wavelet packet analysis was performed on each 5 s clip using Daubechies (DB3) mother wavelet and for comparison discrete wavelet analysis was performed using Symlet (SYM3) wavelets. The choice of wavelet basis function was based on a grid search using Daubechies, Symlet and biorthogonal wavelets with decomposition levels varying between 2 and 5. Support vector machine is used for two-class classification. Out of 29 overnight polysomnographic studies, 23 of them were used in the training phase and 6 patients were used for independent testing.
Results
The proposed algorithm is shown to perform better in classifying CSA and OSA with wavelet packet features (accuracy—91%, sensitivity—88.14% and specificity—91.11%) than with the traditional wavelet decomposition based features (accuracy—83.79%, sensitivity—89.18% and specificity—83.59%). The independent test resulted in overall classification accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of 91.08, 91.02 and 91.09% respectively using wavelet packet analysis.
Conclusions
The classification result indicates the possibility of non-invasively classifying CSA and OSA events based on shorter segments of ECG signals.
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Gubbi, J., Khandoker, A. & Palaniswami, M. Classification of sleep apnea types using wavelet packet analysis of short-term ECG signals. J Clin Monit Comput 26, 1–11 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-011-9323-z
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