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A Systematic Review of Detecting Sleep Apnea Using Deep Learning

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Mostafa, Sheikh Shanawaz, Mendonça, Fábio, G. Ravelo-García, Antonio, Morgado-Dias, Fernando·2019·Sensors

Abstract

Sleep apnea is a sleep related disorder that significantly affects the population. Polysomnography, the gold standard, is expensive, inaccessible, uncomfortable and an expert technician is needed to score. Numerous researchers have proposed and implemented automatic scoring processes to address these issues, based on fewer sensors and automatic classification algorithms. Deep learning is gaining higher interest due to database availability, newly developed techniques, the possibility of producing machine created features and higher computing power that allows the algorithms to achieve better performance than the shallow classifiers. Therefore, the sleep apnea research has currently gained significant interest in deep learning. The goal of this work is to analyze the published research in the last decade, providing an answer to the research questions such as how to implement the different deep networks, what kind of pre-processing or feature extraction is needed, and the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of networks. The employed signals, sensors, databases and implementation challenges were also considered. A systematic search was conducted on five indexing services from 2008–2018. A total of 255 papers were found and 21 were selected by considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria, using the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) approach.

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Authors
Mostafa, S. S., Mendonça, F., G. Ravelo-García, A., & Morgado-Dias, F.
Affiliations
  • University of Lisbon (PT)
  • Institute for Technological Development and Innovation in Communications, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35001 Las Palmas, Spain
  • Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia, Universidade da Madeira, 9000-082 Funchal, Portugal
Corresponding author
Mostafa, Sheikh Shanawaz
Venue
Sensors
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2019-11-12
Volume
19
Issue
22
Pages
4934
ISSN
1424-8220 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2985634329
Cited by
182
References
91
Citations by year
2026: 18 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 35 · 2023: 40 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 10
FWCI
1.64
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Sensors (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Acceda (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) (submittedVersion)
  • Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Projeto Estratégico UID/EEA/50009/2019)
  • ARDITI - Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação (Project M1420-09-5369-FSE-000001-PhD Studentship)
  • MITIExcell - Excelencia Internacional de IDT&I NAS TIC provided by the Regional Government of Madeira (Project Number M1420-01-01450FEDER0000002)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
Keywords
sleep apnea, automated sleep scoring, polysomnography, deep learning, wearable sensors, feature extraction, sleep monitoring
MeSH terms
Deep Learning, Humans, Sleep Apnea Syndromes, Neural Networks, Computer

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