Automatic Detection of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Based on Multimodal Imaging System and Binary Code Alignment

  • Ruoshu Yang
  • , Ludan Zhang
  • , Yunlu Wang
  • , Menghan Hu*
  • , Qingli Li
  • , Xiao Ping Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

There are many patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, which has caused concern. When it occurs, the nasal airflow disappears, and the breathing action of the chest and abdomen still exists. Therefore, we propose a multimodal imaging system in tandem with binary code alignment to remotely and automatically detect the obstructive sleep apnea. The RGB-thermal imaging module is applied to monitor the breathing conditions in the nose or mouth area. The depth camera is utilized to monitor the undulating state of the chest cavity. The obtained respiratory waveform is afterwards subjected to the limiting filter to suppress noisy signals that are not related to the mission objective. The signals derived from thermal camera and depth camera are pooled together for binary code alignment. When these two synchronously acquired bimodal signals do not match well, the obstructive sleep apnea is present. Our method achieves the satisfactory performance with accuracy, precision, recall and F1 of 91.38 %, 96.15 %, 86.21 %, and 90.91 %, respectively. This indicates that the proposed multimodal imaging system coupled with binary code alignment has a potential for non-contact and automatic detection of obstructive sleep apnea.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communications - 18th International Forum, IFTC 2021, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsGuangtao Zhai, Jun Zhou, Hua Yang, Ping An, Xiaokang Yang
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages108-119
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9789811922657
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event18th International Forum of Digital Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2021 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 3 Dec 20214 Dec 2021

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1560 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference18th International Forum of Digital Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period3/12/214/12/21

Keywords

  • Binary code alignment
  • Depth imaging
  • Limiting filter processing
  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)
  • RGB-thermal imaging

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