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Locating the Upper Body of Covered Humans in application to Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea - Wang, Ching-Wei; Ahmed, Amr; Hunter, Andrew
Obstructive Sleep Apnea is increasingly seen as a common and important condition, contributing to sleep disturbance and consequential daytime sleepiness. According to recent research findings, the best predictors of morbidity in individual patients, as assessed by improvements with CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure therapy), are nocturnal oxygen saturation and movements during sleep. Although pulse oximetry is a well-established technique to analyze oxygen saturation, video monitoring and interpretation is less well developed both from a processing and analysis viewpoint. This is due to the relative computational complexity of video processing analysis, as well as application-related technical challenges, involving night vision, the...
(application/pdf) - 06-jul-2007
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Locating the Upper Body of Covered Humans in application to Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea - Best Student Paper Award of The World Congress on Engineering 2007 - Wang, Ching-Wei; Ahmed, Amr; Hunter, Andrew
Obstructive Sleep Apnea is increasingly seen as a common and important condition, contributing to sleep disturbance and consequential daytime sleepiness. According to recent research findings, the best predictors of morbidity in individual patients, as assessed by improvements with CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure therapy), are nocturnal oxygen saturation and movements during sleep. Although pulse oximetry is a well-established technique to analyze oxygen saturation, video monitoring and interpretation is less well developed both from a processing and analysis viewpoint. This is due to the relative computational complexity of video processing analysis, as well as application-related technical challenges, involving night vision, the...
(application/pdf) - 22-ago-2007
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