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Polysomnographic (sleep) signals are recorded from patients exhibiting symptoms of a suspected sleep disorder such as Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA). These non-stationary signals are characterised by having both quantitative information in the frequency domain and rich, dynamic data in the time domain. The collected data is subsequently analysed by skilled visual evaluation to determine whether arousals are present, an approach which is both time-consuming and subjective. This paper presents a wavelet-based methodology which seeks to alleviate some of the problems of the above method by providing: (1) an automated mechanism by which the appropriate stage of sleep for disorder observation may be extracted from the composite electroencephalograph (EEG) data set and (2) an ensuing technique to assist in the diagnosis of full arousal by correlation of wavelet-extracted information from a number of specific patient data sources (e.g. pulse oximetry, electromyogram [EMG] etc)
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MacCallum, M., Almaini, A.E.A. (2001). The Application of the Wavelet Transform to Polysomnographic Signals. In: Tang, Y.Y., Yuen, P.C., Li, Ch., Wickerhauser, V. (eds) Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications. WAA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2251. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45333-4_35
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