Background and Objective: The accurate detection of sleep stages and disorders in older adults is essential for the effective diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders affecting millions worldwide. Although Polysomnography (PSG) remains the primary...
To elucidate the changes in gas exchange across the life course, we estimated the age trajectories of O2 saturation, CO2 (as either end-tidal or serum bicarbonate), resting heart rate, and resting respiratory rate from age 2 yr onward in female and m...
In this study, we collected and analyzed polysomnography (PSG) data to investigate the value of PSG in diagnosing sleep problems in children. The results of PSG studies of children (<18 years old) with sleep problems conducted from April 2015 to M...
Polysomnography (PSG) is the “gold standard” for monitoring sleep. Alternatives to PSG are of interest for clinical, research, and personal use. Wrist-worn actigraph devices have been utilized in research settings for measures of sleep for over two d...
Diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in children with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) requires hospital-based, overnight level I polysomnography (PSG). Obtaining a level I PSG can be challenging for children and their caregivers due to the cos...
Socioeconomic status (SES) has an unrecognized influence on behavioral risk factors as well as public health strategies related to sleep health disparities. In addition to that, objectively measuring SES’ influence on sleep health is challengin...
Traditional measures of sleep or commercial wearables may not be ideal for use in operational environments. The Zulu watch is a commercial sleep-tracking device designed to collect longitudinal sleep data in real-world environments. Laboratory testin...
Automatic bio-signal processing and scoring have been a popular topic in recent years. This includes sleep stage classification, which is time-consuming when carried out by hand. Multiple sleep stage classification has been proposed in recent years....
7 August 2020
Introduction: Patient support groups (PSGs) should be designed according to the backgrounds of participants and the nature of their diseases. Using health literacy as an outcome indicator for PSGs is rare. Methods: All questionnaires (Mandarin Multid...
Background/Objectives: Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome (OSA) in children disrupts normal breathing patterns and sleep architecture, potentially leading to severe consequences. Early identification and intervention are crucial to prevent these issue...
Background: Delirium affects up to 50% of patients following high-risk surgeries and is associated with poor long-term prognosis. This study employed machine learning to predict delirium using polysomnography (PSG) and sleep-disorder questionnaire da...
30 September 2020
Background: Little has been done regarding the research on quality and quantity of patient support groups (PSGs) and how they can be improved. Here, we present three-year experiences of a quality improvement (QI) program of our PSGs. Methods: We laun...
In children with life-limiting conditions and severe neurological impairment receiving pediatric palliative care (PPC), the degree to which actigraphy generates meaningful sleep data is uncertain. Benchmarked against the gold standard polysomnography...
Here we provide all datasets and details applied in the construction of a composite protein database required for the proteogenomic analyses of the article “Putative Antimicrobial Peptides of the Posterior Salivary Glands from the Cephalopod Oc...
Deep learning (DL)-based multi-user physical layer authentication (PLA) in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) requires frequent updates as new users join. Class incremental learning (CIL) addresses this challenge, but existing generative replay...
The utility of home respiratory polygraphy (HRP) was assessed as an alternative to polysomnography (PSG) in the diagnosis of childhood obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). PSG was indicated only in patients with concomitant disease or where HRP r...
Overlap syndrome (OVS) is a distinct clinical entity that seems to result in potential cardiovascular consequences. We aimed to estimate the prevalence and risk factors for OVS in OSA patients and analyze clinical and PSG characteristics associated w...
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into industrial processes is a promising method for enhancing operational efficiency and quality control. In particular, contact lens manufacturing requires specialized artificial intelligence technolog...
Background: Reports of poor sleep are widespread, but their link with objective sleep (polysomnography—PSG) is weak in cross-sectional studies. In contrast, the purpose of this study was to investigate the association between changes in subject...
Negatively selected genes (NSGs) and positively selected genes (PSGs) are the two types of most nuclear protein-coding genes in organisms. However, the evolutionary rates and characteristics of different types of genes have been rarely understood. In...
Sleep disturbances are increasingly recognized as early and clinically meaningful features in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases. Polysomnography (PSG), i.e., the gold standard for objectively characterizing sleep architecture, may pro...
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients would strongly benefit from comfortable home diagnosis, during which detection of wakefulness is essential. Therefore, capacitively-coupled electrocardiogram (ccECG) and bioimpedance (ccBioZ) sensors were used t...
The aim of the study was to examine the validity of a neurophysiological-based wearable device, i.e., Somfit (Compumedics Ltd.), for the assessment of sleep in athletes. Twenty-seven athletes (14 F, 13 M, aged 22.3 ± 5.1 years) spent a single...
Background: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a highly prevalent sleep-related breathing disorder that remains substantially underdiagnosed and is causally linked to cardiovascular and metabolic morbidity. Clinical diagnosis relies on the apnea–...
This study was conducted to determine the efficacy of a customized mandibular advancement device (MAD) in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Eight patients (M = 3; F = 5; mean age = 56.3 ± 9.4) with a diagnosis of OSA confirmed by...
Pediatric obstructive sleep-disordered breathing encompasses a wide spectrum of diagnostic clusters, including primary snoring, upper airway resistance syndrome, mild, moderate, and severe obstructive sleep apnea, and obstructive hypoventilation. Eve...
Background/Objectives: Participation in patient support groups (PSGs) for long-term cardiac rehabilitation (CR) enables sustainable, cardioprotective lifestyle modification, which can reduce morbidity and cardiovascular mortality. This study evaluate...
The paper proposes a unsupervised method for detecting the three stages of sleep—wake, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and non-REM sleep—using biosignals obtained from a 61 GHz single frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. To d...
10 January 2023
The possibility of distinguishing insomniacs from good sleepers based on polysomnography (PSG) remains an open question. While these groups show modest differences in traditional PSG parameters, some studies suggest that finer measures may be more us...
(1) Background: Home sleep apnea testing, known as polysomnography type 3 (PSG3), underestimates respiratory events in comparison with in-laboratory polysomnography type 1 (PSG1). Without head electrodes for scoring sleep and arousal, in a home envir...
Tonsillectomy is one of the most common procedures performed in children, however there are currently no published studies evaluating tonsillectomy in children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS). With this study, our goal was to investigate the...
In this paper, an algorithm to extract respiration signals using a flexible projected capacitive sensing mattress (FPCSM) designed for personal health assessment is proposed. Unlike the interfaces of conventional measurement systems for poly-somnogra...
This study determined if using alternative sleep onset (SO) definitions impacted accelerometer-derived sleep estimates compared with polysomnography (PSG). Nineteen participants (48%F) completed a 48 h visit in a home simulation laboratory. Sleep cha...
Polysomnography (PSG) remains the gold standard for sleep monitoring but is obtrusive in nature. Advances in camera sensor technology and data analysis techniques enable contactless monitoring of heart rate variability (HRV). In turn, this may allow...
Sleep is a vital physiological process for recovery and health. In people with knee osteoarthritis (OA), disrupted sleep is common and linked to worse clinical outcomes. Commercial sleep trackers provide an accessible option to monitor sleep in this...
Sleep disturbances are common in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, and together represent a potential therapeutic target for disease modification. A major barrier for studying sleep in patients with dementia is the requiremen...
19 February 2019
Sleep disorder is a symptom of many neurological diseases that may significantly affect the quality of daily life. Traditional methods are time-consuming and involve the manual scoring of polysomnogram (PSG) signals obtained in a laboratory environme...
Background and Objectives: Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is the most frequent sleep disorder, characterized by the repeated collapse of the upper respiratory tract during sleep. In this study, we aimed to determine the prevalence of OSAS in...
Sleep stage detection from polysomnography (PSG) recordings is a widely used method of monitoring sleep quality. Despite significant progress in the development of machine-learning (ML)-based and deep-learning (DL)-based automatic sleep stage detecti...
15 August 2023
The objective of this study was to investigate to which extent anatomic features of the nasal and pharyngeal region contribute to the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy response. Therefore, 93 patient...
Young individuals with sickle cell anaemia (SCA) experience sleep disturbances and often experience daytime tiredness, which in turn may impact on their daytime functioning and academic attainment, but there are few longitudinal data. Methods: Data o...
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a global health concern and is typically diagnosed using in-laboratory polysomnography (PSG). However, PSG is highly time-consuming and labor-intensive. We, therefore, developed machine learning models based on easily...
The Sleep Number smart bed uses embedded ballistocardiography, together with network connectivity, signal processing, and machine learning, to detect heart rate (HR), breathing rate (BR), and sleep vs. wake states. This study evaluated the performanc...
Background/Objectives: Gender differences influence the clinical manifestations, progression, and treatment response in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome, suggesting the existence of distinct gender-related phenotypes potentially driven by anato...
Insomnia is a highly prevalent sleep disorder with strong bidirectional associations with depressive symptoms. The circadian preference for eveningness has been shown to be associated with depressive symptoms in insomnia and other mental health condi...
Cephalopods, successful predators, can use a mixture of substances to subdue their prey, becoming interesting sources of bioactive compounds. In addition to neurotoxins and enzymes, the presence of antimicrobial compounds has been reported. Recently,...
31 December 2023
Background: Exercise and diet have positive effects on hepatic fat reduction, and protein supplementation is known to lower hepatic fat accumulation. However, the effect of a combination of exercise and whey protein supplementation (WPS) on hepatic f...
Background/Objectives: Recent studies indicate that sleep and sleep disorders differ between men and women, but corresponding data in people with chronic lung diseases are lacking. This study aims to answer the question of what the sex-specific diffe...
Sleep is vital for one’s general well-being, but it is often neglected, which has led to an increase in sleep disorders worldwide. Indicators of sleep disorders, such as sleep interruptions, extreme daytime drowsiness, or snoring, can be detect...
Sleep apnea (SA) is a prevalent disorder characterized by recurrent events of nocturnal apnea. Polysomnography (PSG) represents the gold standard for SA diagnosis. This laboratory-based procedure is complex and costly, and less cumbersome wearable de...
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