Automatic Video Analysis for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Diagnosis.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

We investigated the diagnostic accuracy for the identification of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and its severity of a noninvasive technology based on image processing (SleepWise).

Methods

This is an observational, prospective study to evaluate the degree of agreement between polysomnography (PSG) and SleepWise. We recruited 56 consecutive subjects with suspected OSA who were referred as outpatients to the Sleep Unit of the Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol (HUGTiP) from January 2013 to January 2014. All patients underwent laboratory PSG and image processing with SleepWise simultaneously the same night. Both PSG and SleepWise analyses were carried independently and blindly.

Results

We analyzed 50 of the 56 patients recruited. OSA was diagnose

SUBMITTER: Abad J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4945309 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature