Enhanced monitoring of sleep position in sleep apnea patients: smartphone triaxial accelerometry compared with video-validated position from polysomnography

Poor sleep quality is a risk factor for multiple mental, cardiovascular, and cerebrovascular diseases. Certain sleep positions or excessive position changes can be related to some diseases and poor sleep quality. Nevertheless, sleep position is usually classified into four discrete values: supine, p...

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Autores: Ferrer Lluís, Ignasi, Castillo Escario, Yolanda|||0000-0002-7493-1268, Montserrat Gili, Josep Maria, Jané Campos, Raimon|||0000-0002-6541-8729
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/351221
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/351221
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21113689
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Medicine -- Data processing
Sleep apnea syndromes
Accelerometry
Biomedical signal processing
MHealth
Monitoring
Sleep apnea
Sleep position
Smartphone
Medicina -- Informàtica
Síndromes d'apnea del son
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Automàtica i control
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Sumario:Poor sleep quality is a risk factor for multiple mental, cardiovascular, and cerebrovascular diseases. Certain sleep positions or excessive position changes can be related to some diseases and poor sleep quality. Nevertheless, sleep position is usually classified into four discrete values: supine, prone, left and right. An increase in sleep position resolution is necessary to better assess sleep position dynamics and to interpret more accurately intermediate sleep positions. This research aims to study the feasibility of smartphones as sleep position monitors by (1) developing algorithms to retrieve the sleep position angle from smartphone accelerometry; (2) monitoring the sleep position angle in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA); (3) comparing the discretized sleep angle versus the four classic sleep positions obtained by the video-validated polysomnography (PSG); and (4) analyzing the presence of positional OSA (pOSA) related to its sleep angle of occurrence. Results from 19 OSA patients reveal that a higher resolution sleep position would help to better diagnose and treat patients with position-dependent diseases such as pOSA. They also show that smartphones are promising mHealth tools for enhanced position monitoring at hospitals and home, as they can provide sleep position with higher resolution than the gold-standard video-validated PSG.