A NOVEL APPROACH OSA DETECTION USING SINGLE-LEAD ECG SCALOGRAM BASED ON DEEP NEURAL NETWORK

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is the most common and severe breathing dysfunction which frequently freezes the breathing for longer than 10 s while sleeping. Polysomnography (PSG) is the conventional approach concerning the treatment of OSA detection. But, this approach is a costly and cumbersome process. To overcome the above complication, a satisfactory and novel technique for interpretation of sleep apnea using ECG were recording is under development. The methods for OSA analysis based on ECG were analyzed for numerous years. Early work concentrated on extracting features, which depend entirely on the experience of human specialists. A novel approach for the prediction of sleep apnea disorder based on the convolutional neural network (CNN) using a pre-trained (AlexNet) model is analyzed in this study. After filtering per-minute segment of the single-lead ECG recording accompanied by continuous wavelet transform (CWT), the 2D scalogram images are generated. Finally, CNN based on deep learning algorithm is adopted to enhance the classification performance. The efficiency of the proposed model is compared with the previous methods that used the same datasets. Proposed method based on CNN is able to achieve the accuracy of 86.22% with 90% sensitivity in per-minute segment OSA classification. Based on per-recording OSA diagnosis, our works correctly classify all the abnormal apneic recording with 100% accuracy. Our OSA analysis model using time-frequency scalogram generates excellent independent validation performance with different state-of-the-art OSA classification systems. Experimental results proved that the proposed method produces excellent performance outcomes with low cost and less complexity.