Oxygen Saturation and RR Intervals Feature Selection for Sleep Apnea Detection

A diagnostic system for sleep apnea based on oxygen saturation and RR intervals obtained from the EKG (electrocardiogram) is proposed with the goal to detect and quantify minute long segments of sleep with breathing pauses. We measured the discriminative capacity of combinations of features obtained...

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Main Authors: Antonio G. Ravelo-García, Jan F. Kraemer, Juan L. Navarro-Mesa, Eduardo Hernández-Pérez, Javier Navarro-Esteva, Gabriel Juliá-Serdá, Thomas Penzel, Niels Wessel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-05-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/17/5/2932