RESEARCH ARTICLE
Intelligent Approach for Analysis of Respiratory Signals and Oxygen Saturation in the Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea Syndrome
Vicente Moret-Bonillo*, 1, 2, Diego Alvarez-Estévez 1, Angel Fernández-Leal 1, Elena Hernández-Pereira 1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2014Volume: 8
First Page: 1
Last Page: 19
Publisher Id: TOMINFOJ-8-1
DOI: 10.2174/1874431101408010001
Article History:
Received Date: 22/12/2013Revision Received Date: 25/2/2014
Acceptance Date: 28/2/2014
Electronic publication date: 13/6/2014
Collection year: 2014
open-access license: This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
Abstract
This work deals with the development of an intelligent approach for clinical decision making in the diagnosis of the Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea Syndrome, SAHS, from the analysis of respiratory signals and oxygen saturation in arterial blood, SaO2. In order to accomplish the task the proposed approach makes use of different artificial intelligence techniques and reasoning processes being able to deal with imprecise data. These reasoning processes are based on fuzzy logic and on temporal analysis of the information. The developed approach also takes into account the possibility of artifacts in the monitored signals. Detection and characterization of signal artifacts allows detection of false positives. Identification of relevant diagnostic patterns and temporal correlation of events is performed through the implementation of temporal constraints.
