Automatic classification of breathing sounds during sleep

Brian R. Snider, Alexander Kain

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

5 Scopus citations

Abstract

Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is a highly prevalent condition associated with many adverse health problems. As the current means of diagnosis (polysomnography) is obtrusive and ill-suited for mass screening of the population, we explore a non-contact, automatic approach that uses acoustics-based methods. We present a method for automatically classifying breathing sounds produced during sleep. We compare the performance of several acoustic feature representations for detecting diagnostically-relevant sleep breathing events to predict overall SDB severity. Our subject-independent method tracks rest in the breathing cycle with 84-87% accuracy, and predicts SDB severity at a level similar to polysomnography.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2013 - Proceedings
Pages699-703
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 18 2013
Event2013 38th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2013 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Duration: May 26 2013May 31 2013

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2013 38th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2013
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver, BC
Period5/26/135/31/13

Keywords

  • breathing
  • polysomnography
  • sleep apnea

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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