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An artificial-neural-network-based detector of pharyngeal wall vibration (PWV) is presented. PWV signals the imminent occurrence of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in adults who suffer from OSA syndrome. Automated detection of PWV is very important in enhancing continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy by allowing automatic adjustment of the applied airway pressure by a procedure called automatic positive airway pressure (APAP) therapy. A network with 15 inputs, one output, and two hidden layers, each with two Adaline nodes, is used as part of a PWV detection scheme. The network is initially trained using nasal mask pressure data from five positively diagnosed OSA patients. The performance of the ANN-based detector is evaluated using data from five different OSA patients. The results show that on the average it correctly detects the presence of PWV events at a rate of ≅92% and correctly distinguishes normal breaths ≅98% of the time. Further, the ANN-based detector accuracy is not affected by the pressure level required for therapy.
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Behbehani, K., Lopez, F., Yen, F.C. et al. Pharyngeal wall vibration detection using an artificial neural network. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 35, 193–198 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02530037
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