Normal probability testing of snore signals for diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea

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 5551-5554

  Ghaemmaghami, H ^a   Abeyratne, U R ^a   Hukins, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SLEEP RESEARCH;

CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS; DETECTABILITY; GROUND TRUTH; NONGAUSSIANITY; OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; UPPER AIRWAY;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 77950990998     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333733     Document Type: Conference Paper

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