SleepMinder: An innovative contact-free device for the estimation of the apnoea-hypopnoea index

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 7091-7094

  Zaffaroni, Alberto ^a   De Chazal, Philip ^a   Heneghan, Conor ^a   Boyle, Patricia ^b   Ronayne, Patricia ^b   McNicholas, Walter T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO TRANSCEIVERS; SLEEP RESEARCH;

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; BODY MASS INDEX; CONTACT-FREE DEVICE; DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE; PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE; SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES; SLEEP LABORATORIES; SLEEP-DISORDERED BREATHING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 77950987712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332909     Document Type: Conference Paper

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