Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome by monitoring patients airflow signals

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 277-281

  Kermit, Martin ^a   Eide, Åge J ^a   Lindblad, Thomas ^b   Waldemark, Karina ^b  

^a School of Computer Sciences   (Norway)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Neural networks; O algorithm; Sleep apnea syndrome; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATIENT MONITORING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME;

SLEEP RESEARCH;

EID: 0033873997     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(99)00157-9     Document Type: Article

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