Automatic breath and snore sounds classification from tracheal and ambient sounds recordings

A Yadollahi, Z Moussavi - Medical engineering & physics, 2010 - Elsevier
In this study respiratory sound signals were recorded from 23 patients suspect of obstructive
sleep apnea, who were referred for the full-night sleep lab study. The sounds were recorded …

Automatic and unsupervised snore sound extraction from respiratory sound signals

A Azarbarzin, ZMK Moussavi - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an automatic and unsupervised snore detection algorithm is proposed. The
respiratory sound signals of 30 patients with different levels of airway obstruction were …

Unsupervised classification of respiratory sound signal into snore/no-snore classes

A Azarbarzin, Z Moussavi - 2010 Annual International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, an automatic and online snore detection algorithm is proposed. The respiratory
sound signals were recorded simultaneously with Polysomnography (PSG) data during …

Obstructive sleep apnea screening and airway structure characterization during wakefulness using tracheal breathing sounds

A Elwali, Z Moussavi - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2017 - Springer
Screening for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) disorder during wakefulness is challenging. In
this paper, we present a set of tracheal breathing sounds characteristics with classification …

Automatic detection of obstructive sleep apnea using speech signals

E Goldshtein, A Tarasiuk, Y Zigel - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common disorder associated with anatomical
abnormalities of the upper airways that affects 5% of the population. Acoustic parameters …

Subject independent identification of breath sounds components using multiple classifiers

H Alshaer, A Pandya, TD Bradley… - 2014 IEEE International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breath sounds have been shown very valuable for diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea. In
this study, we present a subject independent method for automatic classification of breath …

Classification of the excitation location of snore sounds in the upper airway by acoustic multifeature analysis

K Qian, C Janott, V Pandit, Z Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a serious chronic disease and a risk factor for
cardiovascular diseases. Snoring is a typical symptom of OSA patients. Knowledge of the …

Classifying respiratory sounds with different feature sets

YP Kahya, M Yeginer, B Bilgic - 2006 International Conference …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, different feature sets are used in conjunction with k-NN and artificial neural
network (ANN) classifiers to address the classification problem of respiratory sound signals …

A bag of wavelet features for snore sound classification

K Qian, M Schmitt, C Janott, Z Zhang, C Heiser… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2019 - Springer
Snore sound (SnS) classification can support a targeted surgical approach to sleep related
breathing disorders. Using machine listening methods, we aim to find the location of …

Detection of breathing sounds during sleep using non-contact audio recordings

T Rosenwein, E Dafna, A Tarasiuk… - 2014 36th Annual …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evaluation of respiratory activity during sleep is essential in order to reliably diagnose sleep
disorder breathing (SDB); a condition associated with serious cardio-vascular morbidity and …