Sleep disorders are diagnosed in sleep laboratories by polysomnography, a multi-parameter examination that monitors biological signals during sleep. The subsequent evaluation of the obtained records is very time-consuming. The goal of this study was to create an automatic system for evaluation of the airflow and SpO2 channels of polysomnography records, through the use of machine learning techniques and a large database, for apnea and desaturation detection (which is unusual in other studies). To that end, a convolutional neural network (CNN) was designed using hyperparameter optimization. It was then trained and tested for apnea and desaturation. The proposed CNN was compared with the commonly used k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) method. The classifiers were designed based on nasal airflow and blood oxygen saturation signals. The final neural network accuracy for apnea detection reached 84%, and that for desaturation detection was 74%, while the k-NN classifier reached accuracies of 83% and 64% for apnea detection and desaturation detection, respectively.

3rd Faculty of Medicine Charles University 10000 Prague Czech Republic

Faculty of Biomedical Engineering Czech Technical University Prague 27201 Kladno Czech Republic

National Institute of Mental Health 25067 Klecany Czech Republic

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