Detection of obstructive sleep apnea in pediatric subjects using surface lead electrocardiogram features.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To investigate the feasibility of detecting obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in children using an automated classification system based on analysis of overnight electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings. DESIGN Retrospective observational study. SETTING A pediatric sleep clinic. PARTICIPANTS Fifty children underwent full overnight polysomnography. INTERVENTION N/A. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS Expert polysomnography scoring was performed. The datasets were divided into a training set of 25 subjects (11 normal, 14 with OSA) and a withheld test set of 25 subjects (11 normal, 14 with OSA). Features, calculated from the ECG of the 25 training datasets, were empirically chosen to train a modified quadratic discriminant analysis classification system. The selected configuration used a segment length of 60 seconds and processed mean, SD, power spectral density, and serial correlation measures to classify segments as apneic or normal. By combining per-segment classifications and using receiver-operator characteristic analysis, a per-subject classifier was obtained that had a sensitivity of 85.7%, specificity of 90.9%, and accuracy of 88% on the training datasets. The same decision threshold was applied to the withheld datasets and yielded a sensitivity of 85.7%, specificity of 81.8%, and accuracy of 84%. The positive and negative predictive values were 85.7% and 81.8%, respectively, on the test dataset. CONCLUSIONS The ability to correctly identify 12 out of 14 cases of OSA (with the 2 false negatives arising from subjects with an apnea-hypopnea index less than 10) indicates that the automated apnea classification system outlined may have clinical utility in pediatric patients.

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