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Main Authors: Hasegawa, Kodai, Okumura, Shigeaki, Taki, Hirofumi, Sunadome, Hironobu, Hamada, Satoshi, Sato, Susumu, Chin, Kazuo, Sakamoto, Takuya
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19701
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author Hasegawa, Kodai
Okumura, Shigeaki
Taki, Hirofumi
Sunadome, Hironobu
Hamada, Satoshi
Sato, Susumu
Chin, Kazuo
Sakamoto, Takuya
author_facet Hasegawa, Kodai
Okumura, Shigeaki
Taki, Hirofumi
Sunadome, Hironobu
Hamada, Satoshi
Sato, Susumu
Chin, Kazuo
Sakamoto, Takuya
contents Radar-based respiratory measurement is a promising tool for the noncontact detection of sleep apnea. Our team has reported that apnea events can be accurately detected using the statistical characteristics of the amplitude of respiratory displacement. However, apnea and hypopnea events are often followed by irregular breathing, reducing the detection accuracy. This study proposes a new method to overcome this performance degradation by repeatedly applying the detection method to radar data sets corresponding to multiple overlapping time intervals. Averaging the detected classes over multiple time intervals gives an analog value between 0 and 1, which can be interpreted as the probability that there is an apnea event. We show that the proposed method can mitigate the effect of irregular breathing that occurs after apnea / hypopnea events, and its performance is confirmed by experimental data taken from seven patients.
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spellingShingle Accurate Radar-Based Detection of Sleep Apnea Using Overlapping Time-Interval Averaging
Hasegawa, Kodai
Okumura, Shigeaki
Taki, Hirofumi
Sunadome, Hironobu
Hamada, Satoshi
Sato, Susumu
Chin, Kazuo
Sakamoto, Takuya
Signal Processing
Radar-based respiratory measurement is a promising tool for the noncontact detection of sleep apnea. Our team has reported that apnea events can be accurately detected using the statistical characteristics of the amplitude of respiratory displacement. However, apnea and hypopnea events are often followed by irregular breathing, reducing the detection accuracy. This study proposes a new method to overcome this performance degradation by repeatedly applying the detection method to radar data sets corresponding to multiple overlapping time intervals. Averaging the detected classes over multiple time intervals gives an analog value between 0 and 1, which can be interpreted as the probability that there is an apnea event. We show that the proposed method can mitigate the effect of irregular breathing that occurs after apnea / hypopnea events, and its performance is confirmed by experimental data taken from seven patients.
title Accurate Radar-Based Detection of Sleep Apnea Using Overlapping Time-Interval Averaging
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19701