Bringing At-home Pediatric Sleep Apnea Testing Closer to Reality: A Multi-modal Transformer Approach

Hamed Fayyaz, Abigail Strang, Rahmatollah Beheshti
Proceedings of the 8th Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference, PMLR 219:167-185, 2023.

Abstract

Sleep apnea in children is a major health problem affecting one to five percent of children (in the US). If not treated in a timely manner, it can also lead to other physical and mental health issues. Pediatric sleep apnea has different clinical causes and characteristics than adults. Despite a large group of studies dedicated to studying adult apnea, pediatric sleep apnea has been studied in a much less limited fashion. Relatedly, at-home sleep apnea testing tools and algorithmic methods for automatic detection of sleep apnea are widely present for adults, but not children. In this study, we target this gap by presenting a machine learning-based model for detecting apnea events from commonly collected sleep signals. We show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods across two public datasets, as determined by the F1-score and AUROC measures. Additionally, we show that using two of the signals that are easier to collect at home (ECG and SpO2) can also achieve very competitive results, potentially addressing the concerns about collecting various sleep signals from children outside the clinic. Therefore, our study can greatly inform ongoing progress toward increasing the accessibility of pediatric sleep apnea testing and improving the timeliness of the treatment interventions.

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BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v219-fayyaz23a, title = {Bringing At-home Pediatric Sleep Apnea Testing Closer to Reality: A Multi-modal Transformer Approach}, author = {Fayyaz, Hamed and Strang, Abigail and Beheshti, Rahmatollah}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference}, pages = {167--185}, year = {2023}, editor = {Deshpande, Kaivalya and Fiterau, Madalina and Joshi, Shalmali and Lipton, Zachary and Ranganath, Rajesh and Urteaga, Iñigo and Yeung, Serene}, volume = {219}, series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research}, month = {11--12 Aug}, publisher = {PMLR}, pdf = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v219/fayyaz23a/fayyaz23a.pdf}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v219/fayyaz23a.html}, abstract = {Sleep apnea in children is a major health problem affecting one to five percent of children (in the US). If not treated in a timely manner, it can also lead to other physical and mental health issues. Pediatric sleep apnea has different clinical causes and characteristics than adults. Despite a large group of studies dedicated to studying adult apnea, pediatric sleep apnea has been studied in a much less limited fashion. Relatedly, at-home sleep apnea testing tools and algorithmic methods for automatic detection of sleep apnea are widely present for adults, but not children. In this study, we target this gap by presenting a machine learning-based model for detecting apnea events from commonly collected sleep signals. We show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods across two public datasets, as determined by the F1-score and AUROC measures. Additionally, we show that using two of the signals that are easier to collect at home (ECG and SpO2) can also achieve very competitive results, potentially addressing the concerns about collecting various sleep signals from children outside the clinic. Therefore, our study can greatly inform ongoing progress toward increasing the accessibility of pediatric sleep apnea testing and improving the timeliness of the treatment interventions.} }
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%0 Conference Paper %T Bringing At-home Pediatric Sleep Apnea Testing Closer to Reality: A Multi-modal Transformer Approach %A Hamed Fayyaz %A Abigail Strang %A Rahmatollah Beheshti %B Proceedings of the 8th Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference %C Proceedings of Machine Learning Research %D 2023 %E Kaivalya Deshpande %E Madalina Fiterau %E Shalmali Joshi %E Zachary Lipton %E Rajesh Ranganath %E Iñigo Urteaga %E Serene Yeung %F pmlr-v219-fayyaz23a %I PMLR %P 167--185 %U https://proceedings.mlr.press/v219/fayyaz23a.html %V 219 %X Sleep apnea in children is a major health problem affecting one to five percent of children (in the US). If not treated in a timely manner, it can also lead to other physical and mental health issues. Pediatric sleep apnea has different clinical causes and characteristics than adults. Despite a large group of studies dedicated to studying adult apnea, pediatric sleep apnea has been studied in a much less limited fashion. Relatedly, at-home sleep apnea testing tools and algorithmic methods for automatic detection of sleep apnea are widely present for adults, but not children. In this study, we target this gap by presenting a machine learning-based model for detecting apnea events from commonly collected sleep signals. We show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods across two public datasets, as determined by the F1-score and AUROC measures. Additionally, we show that using two of the signals that are easier to collect at home (ECG and SpO2) can also achieve very competitive results, potentially addressing the concerns about collecting various sleep signals from children outside the clinic. Therefore, our study can greatly inform ongoing progress toward increasing the accessibility of pediatric sleep apnea testing and improving the timeliness of the treatment interventions.
APA
Fayyaz, H., Strang, A. & Beheshti, R.. (2023). Bringing At-home Pediatric Sleep Apnea Testing Closer to Reality: A Multi-modal Transformer Approach. Proceedings of the 8th Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 219:167-185 Available from https://proceedings.mlr.press/v219/fayyaz23a.html.

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