Jingpeng Sun1,2,3, Xiyuan Hu4, Silong Peng1,2, Chung-Kang Peng3, Yan Ma3. 1. Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China. 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China. 3. Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. 4. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, People's Republic of China.
Abstract
STUDY OBJECTIVES: For surgical treatment of patients with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome, it is crucial to locate accurately the obstructive sites in the upper airway; however, noninvasive methods for locating the obstructive sites have not been well explored. Snoring, as the cardinal symptom of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome, should contain information that reflects the state of the upper airway. Through the classification of snores produced at four different locations, this study aimed to test the hypothesis that snores generated by various obstructive sites differ. METHODS: We trained and tested our model on a public data set that comprised 219 participants. For each snore episode, an acoustic and a physiological feature were extracted and concatenated, forming a 59-dimensional fusion feature. A principal component analysis and a support machine vector were used for dimensional reduction and snore classification. The performance of the proposed model was evaluated using several metrics: sensitivity, precision, specificity, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, and F1 score. RESULTS: The unweighted average values of sensitivity, precision, specificity, area under the curve, and F1 were 86.36%, 89.09%, 96.4%, 87.9%, and 87.63%, respectively. The model achieved 98.04%, 80.56%, 72.73%, and 94.12% sensitivity for types V (velum), O (oropharyngeal), T (tongue), and E (epiglottis) snores. CONCLUSIONS: The characteristics of snores are related to the state of the upper airway. The machine-learning-based model can be used to locate the vibration sites in the upper airway.
STUDY OBJECTIVES: For surgical treatment of patients with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome, it is crucial to locate accurately the obstructive sites in the upper airway; however, noninvasive methods for locating the obstructive sites have not been well explored. Snoring, as the cardinal symptom of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome, should contain information that reflects the state of the upper airway. Through the classification of snores produced at four different locations, this study aimed to test the hypothesis that snores generated by various obstructive sites differ. METHODS: We trained and tested our model on a public data set that comprised 219 participants. For each snore episode, an acoustic and a physiological feature were extracted and concatenated, forming a 59-dimensional fusion feature. A principal component analysis and a support machine vector were used for dimensional reduction and snore classification. The performance of the proposed model was evaluated using several metrics: sensitivity, precision, specificity, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, and F1 score. RESULTS: The unweighted average values of sensitivity, precision, specificity, area under the curve, and F1 were 86.36%, 89.09%, 96.4%, 87.9%, and 87.63%, respectively. The model achieved 98.04%, 80.56%, 72.73%, and 94.12% sensitivity for types V (velum), O (oropharyngeal), T (tongue), and E (epiglottis) snores. CONCLUSIONS: The characteristics of snores are related to the state of the upper airway. The machine-learning-based model can be used to locate the vibration sites in the upper airway.
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