Using psychoacoustics of snoring sounds to screen for obstructive sleep apnea

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1647-1650

  Ng, Andrew Keong ^a   Koh, Tong San ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; DIAGNOSIS; SEMANTICS;

APNEA-HYPOPNEA INDICES; OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA; PSYCHO-ACOUSTIC METRICS; PSYCHOACOUSTIC EVALUATIONS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL SCALE; SPEARMAN'S RANK CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SNORING;

ADULT; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; ROC CURVE; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SNORING;

EID: 61849166006     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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