Investigation of obstructive sleep apnea using nonlinear mode interactions in nonstationary snore signals

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1796-1806

  Ng, Andrew Keong ^a   Koh, Tong San ^a   Abeyratne, Udantha Ranjith ^b   Puvanendran, Kathiravelu ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Nonlinear properties; Obstructive sleep apnea; Quadratic phase coupling; Snore signals; Snoring; Wavelet bicoherence

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA; QUADRATIC PHASE COUPLING; SNORE SIGNALS; SNORING; WAVELET BICOHERENCE;

ACOUSTICS; DIAGNOSIS; NEONATAL MONITORING; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SLEEP RESEARCH;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SNORING;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SNORING;

EID: 68749095711     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-009-9744-8     Document Type: Article

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