Reference:
Mietus JE, Peng CK, Ivanov PC, Goldberger AL. Detection of obstructive sleep apnea from cardiac internet interval time series. DOI:10.1109/CIC.2000.898634
Objectives:
Present a new automated method to diagnose and quantify obstructive sleep apnea from single-lead electrocardiograms based on the detection of the periodic oscillations in cardiac intervals that are often associated with prolonged cycles of sleep apnea.
Conclusions:
The algorithm correctly classified 28 out of 30 cases (93.3%) of both sleep apnea and normal subjects, and correctly identified the presence or absence of sleep apnea in 14,591 out of a total of 17,268 minutes (84.5%) of the data from the test set.
Practical Significance:
This was the first work by some of the co-inventors of what became Cardiopulmonary Coupling, that was first published five years after this competition took place, called Computers in Cardiology.
