Detection of upper airway narrowing via classification of LPC coefficients: Implications for obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 681-684

  Alshaer, Hisham ^a,d   Garcia, Martha ^c   Radfar, M Hossein ^e   Fernie, Geoffrey R ^b   Bradley, T Douglas ^a,e  

^a Sleep Research Laboratory   (Canada)

^b TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

acoustic analysis; fluid shift; sleep apnea; turbulent breath sounds; upper airway resistance and narrowing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; BREATH SOUNDS; FLUID SHIFT; SLEEP APNEA; UPPER AIRWAY;

RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SLEEP RESEARCH;

EID: 80051615126     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5946495     Document Type: Conference Paper

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