Could formant frequencies of snore signals be an alternative means for the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea?

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 894-898

  Ng, Andrew Keong ^a   Koh, Tong San ^a   Baey, Eugene ^b   Lee, Teck Hock ^a   Abeyratne, Udantha Ranjith ^c   Puvanendran, Kathiravelu ^d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Respironics Incorporated   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Coding; Formant frequencies; Linear predictive coding; Obstructive sleep apnea; Polysomnography; Snore signals; Snoring

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SNORING;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SNORING;

EID: 41149158194     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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