Screening of sleep apnea based on heart rate variability and long short-term memory.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) is a prevalent sleep disorder in which apnea and hypopnea occur frequently during sleep and result in increase of the risk of lifestyle-related disease development as well as daytime sleepiness. Although SAS is a common sleep disorder, most patients remain undiagnosed because the gold standard test polysomnography (PSG), is high-cost and unavailable in many hospitals. Thus, an SAS screening system that can be used easily at home is needed.

Methods

Apnea during sleep affects changes in the autonomic nervous function, which causes fluctuation of the heart rate. In this study, we propose a new SAS screening method that combines heart rate measurement and long short-term memory (LSTM) which is a type of recurrent neural network (RNN). We analyz

SUBMITTER: Iwasaki A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8590683 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature