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Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is an important disease that affects both the right and the left cardiac ventricle. This paper presents a novel classification method called pairwise ANFIS based on Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) and one against all method for detecting the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. In order to extract the features related with OSAS, we have used the clinical features obtained from Polysomnography device as a diagnostic tool for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in patients clinically suspected of suffering from this disease. The clinical features obtained from Polysomnography Reports are Arousals Index (ARI), Apnea and Hypoapnea Index (AHI), SaO2 minimum value in stage of REM, and Percent Sleep Time (PST) in stage of SaO2 intervals bigger than 89%. Since ANFIS has output with one class, we have extended the output of ANFIS to multi class by means of one against all method to diagnose the OSAS that has four classes consisting of normal (25 subjects), mild OSAS (AHI = 5–15 and 14 subjects), middle OSAS (AHI < 15–30 and 18 subjects), and heavy OSAS (AHI > 30 and 26 subjects). The classification accuracy, sensitivity and specifity analysis, mean square error, and confusion matrix have been used to test the performance of proposed method. The obtained classification accuracies are 82.92%, 82.92%, 85.36%, and 87.80% for each class including normal, mild OSAS, middle OSAS, and heavy OSAS using ANFIS with one against all method with 50–50% train-test split, respectively. Combining ANFIS and one against all method that is firstly proposed by us was firstly applied for diagnosing the OSAS. The proposed method has produced very promising results in the detecting the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
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Polat, K., Yosunkaya, Ş. & Güneş, S. Pairwise ANFIS Approach to Determining the Disorder Degree of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome. J Med Syst 32, 379–387 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-008-9143-y
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