Xu Wang

Longlong Feng, Xu Wang

Identifying sleep problem severity from overnight polysomnography (PSG) recordings plays an important role in diagnosing and treating sleep disorders such as the Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). This analysis traditionally is done by specialists manually through visual inspections, which can be tedious, time-consuming, and is prone to subjective errors. One of the solutions is to use Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) where the convolutional and pooling layers behave as feature extractors and some fully-connected (FCN) layers are used for making final predictions for the OSA severity. In this paper, a CNN architecture with 1D convolutional and FCN layers for classification is presented. The PSG data for this project are from the Cleveland Children's Sleep and Health Study database and classification results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed CNN method. The proposed 1D CNN model achieves excellent classification results without manually preprocesssing PSG signals such as feature extraction and feature reduction.

Emily T. Winn, Marilyn Vazquez, Prachi Loliencar et al.

Pediatric obstructive sleep apnea affects an estimated 1-5% of elementary-school aged children and can lead to other detrimental health problems. Swift diagnosis and treatment are critical to a child's growth and development, but the variability of symptoms and the complexity of the available data make this a challenge. We take a first step in streamlining the process by focusing on inexpensive data from questionnaires and craniofacial measurements. We apply correlation networks, the Mapper algorithm from topological data analysis, and singular value decomposition in a process of exploratory data analysis. We then apply a variety of supervised and unsupervised learning techniques from statistics, machine learning, and topology, ranging from support vector machines to Bayesian classifiers and manifold learning. Finally, we analyze the results of each of these methods and discuss the implications for a multi-data-sourced algorithm moving forward.