Diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea using formant features of snore signals

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 967-970

  Ng, Andrew K ^a   Koh, T S ^a   Baey, Eugene ^b   Puvanendran, K ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Respironics Incorporated   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Formant; Linear predictive coding; Normalized least meansquare adaptive filter; Obstructive sleep apnea

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIAGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH; FORMANT; LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING; MEAN-SQUARE; NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSIS; NORMALIZED LEAST MEAN SQUARE; OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA; SLEEP-DISORDERED BREATHING;

SLEEP RESEARCH;

EID: 84876134552     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: 14339277     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-36841-0_230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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