Artificial neural networks for breathing and snoring episode detection in sleep sounds

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1675-1689

  Emoto, Takahiro ^a   Abeyratne, Udantha R ^b   Chen, Yongjian ^c   Kawata, Ikuji ^d   Akutagawa, Masatake ^a   Kinouchi, Yohsuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Institute of Medical Electronic   (China)

^d Anan Kyoei Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

neural networks; obstructive sleep apnea; snoring breathing episodes

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDIO RECORDINGS; AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SLEEP RESEARCH;

AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION; BACKGROUND NOISE; DYNAMIC RANGE; LOW-INTENSITY; NEURAL-NETWORKS; NOISE FLOOR; OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA; SLEEP APNOEA DIAGNOSIS; SNORING/BREATHING EPISODE; UPPER AIRWAY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84866878042     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/33/10/1675     Document Type: Article

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