Frequency Features Selection Using Decision Tree for Classification of Sleep Breathing Sound

Sleep snoring has recently been one of the important topics in healthcare and sleep study. Most methods currently focus on spectral analysis in frequency domain that requires high computation for Fourier transform and further processes. Moreover, for full analysis in frequency domain, it is necessary to obtain a high-resolution power spectrum which can lead to difficulties in big data processing and classification. In this paper, the Decision Tree (DT) algorithm was applied to the raw data set of 4,000 ~ 8,000 feature points in order to obtain less than 100 feature points. With the benefits of this feature selection technique, the computational burden was dramatically reduced and its effectiveness in classification was demonstrated by multilayer perceptron neural network (MLP) and support vector machine (SVM).