This application claims the priority benefit of Taiwan application serial no. 106140055, filed on Nov. 20, 2017. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
The disclosure relates to a sleep detection technique, and more particularly, to a wearable device capable of detecting sleep apnea event and a detection method of sleep apnea event.
In the technical field for detecting sleep apnea event, an apnea hypopnea index (AHI) of a tester is generally evaluated by using a polysomnography (PSG) system. The apnea hypopnea index is used to evaluate a number of times that the tester shows a sleep apnea symptom in a sleep situation per hour, wherein the sleep apnea symptom refers to a situation where a sleep apnea event duration exists over 10 seconds per minute. However, in a common method for obtaining the apnea hypopnea index, a plurality of measurement information obtained from ultiple physiological sensing operations performed by the PSG system are required so then the apnea hypopnea index can be obtained after going through complex calculations. However, the physiological sensing operations include, for example, electroencephalography (EEG), sleep gesture, heart rate, electrooculography (EOG), electrocardiogram (ECG), electromyography (EMG), respiratory Effort, air flow, blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation (SaO2), etc. In other words, the common detection technique for sleep apnea event requires complicated accessories to be worn by a wearer and requires analysis on a large amount of sense data. In consideration of the above, providing a wearable device capable of effectively detecting whether the sleep situation of the wearer has sleep apnea event with characteristics of convenience is one of important issues to be addressed in the field.
The disclosure is directed to a wearable device capable of detecting sleep apnea event and a detection method of sleep apnea event, which are capable of effectively detecting whether a sleep situation has a sleep apnea event.
The wearable device capable of detecting sleep apnea event of the disclosure includes a processor and an electrocardiogram sensor. The processor is configured to train a neural network module, so as to create a sleep apnea detection model. The electrocardiogram sensor is coupled to the processor. The electrocardiogram sensor is configured to sense an electrocardiogram signal of a sleep situation. The processor analyzes the electrocardiogram signal to detect a plurality of R-waves in the electrocardiogram signal. The processor performs an R-wave amplitude analysis operation, an R-wave angle analysis operation, and a heart rate variability analysis operation according to the R-waves, so as to obtain a plurality of first characteristic values, a plurality of second characteristic values and a plurality of third characteristic values. The processor utilizes the trained sleep apnea detection model to perform a sleep apnea detection operation based on the first characteristic values, the second characteristic values and the third characteristic values, so as to detect whether the sleep situation has a sleep apnea event.
The detection method of sleep apnea event of the disclosure is adapted to the wearable device capable of detecting sleep apnea event. The wearable device capable of detecting sleep apnea event includes a processor and an electrocardiogram sensor. The detection method of sleep apnea event includes steps of: training a neural network module by the processor to create a sleep apnea detection model; sensing an electrocardiogram signal of a sleep situation by the electrocardiogram sensor, and analyzing the electrocardiogram signal by the processor to detect a plurality of R-waves in the electrocardiogram signal, performing an R-wave amplitude analysis operation, an R-wave angle analysis operation, and a heart rate variability analysis operation according to the R-waves by the processor, so as to obtain a plurality of first characteristic values, a plurality of second characteristic values and a plurality of third characteristic values; and utilizing the trained sleep apnea detection model to perform a sleep apnea detection operation by the processor based on the first characteristic values, the second characteristic values and the third characteristic values, so as to detect whether the sleep situation has a sleep apnea event.
Based on the above, the wearable device capable of detecting sleep apnea event and a detection method of sleep apnea event of the disclosure are capable of effectively detecting whether the sleep situation has the sleep apnea event. The wearable device capable of detecting sleep apnea event of the disclosure can create the sleep apnea detection model in advance, and can effectively sense the electrocardiogram signal, so as to obtain the characteristic values of the electrocardiogram signal. Therefore, the processor of the wearable device capable of detecting sleep apnea event can input the characteristic values into the sleep apnea detection model for calculation, so as to effectively detect whether the sleep situation has the sleep apnea event.
To make the above features and advantages of the disclosure more comprehensible, several embodiments accompanied with drawings are described in detail as follows.
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In the following detailed description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the disclosed embodiments. It will be apparent, however, that one or more embodiments may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are schematically shown in order to simplify the drawing.
In order to make content of the disclosure more comprehensible, embodiments are provided below to describe the disclosure in detail, however, the disclosure is not limited to the provided embodiments, and the provided embodiments can be suitably combined. Moreover, elements/components/steps with same reference numerals represent same or similar parts in the drawings and embodiments.
In the present embodiment, the processor 110 utilizes the trained sleep apnea detection model to perform a sleep apnea detection operation based on the characteristic values, so as to detect whether the sleep situation has a sleep apnea event. In the present embodiment, the sleep apnea detection operation refers to an operation of inputting the characteristic values into the trained sleep apnea detection model for calculation performed by the processor 110 in order to obtain an apnea hypopnea index (AHI). Accordingly, the wearable device 100 of the present embodiment can determine whether the sleep situation of the wearer has the sleep apnea event according to the apnea hypopnea index.
In the present embodiment, the wearable device 100 may be, for example, smart clothes, smart wristbands or other similar devices, and the wearable device 100 is configured to detect the sleep situation of the wearer. The wearable device 100 can integrate each of said circuit elements into one wearable item instead of complicated accessories. In other words, when the wearer is asleep, whether the sleep situation of the wearer has the sleep apnea event may be detected by the wearable device 100 worn by the wearer. In the present embodiment, the processor 110 uses an Apnea-ECG database in a Physionet data platform as a training target to train the neural network module 121 in advance based on another plurality of characteristic values from a plurality of sleep situation samples, so as create the sleep apnea detection model.
In the present embodiment, the processor 110 is, for example, a central processing unit (CPU), a system on chi (SOC) or other programmable devices for general purpose or special purpose, such as a microprocessor and a digital signal processor (DSP), a programmable controller, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a programmable logic device (PLD) or other similar devices or a combination of above-mentioned devices.
In the present embodiment, the storage device 120 is, for example, a dynamic random access memory (DRAM), a flash memory or a non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM). In the present embodiment, the storage device 120 is configured to store data and program modules described in each embodiment of the disclosure, which can be read and executed by the processor 110 so the wearable device 100 can realize the detection method of sleep apnea event described in each embodiment of the disclosure.
In the present embodiment, the storage device 120 is stored with the neural network module 121. The processor 110 can sense a plurality of characteristic values from different wearers in advance by the electrocardiogram sensor 130, and use the characteristic values from the different wearers as sample data. In the present embodiment, the processor 110 can create a prediction model according to determination conditions, algorithms and parameters from the sleep stage, and use a plurality of the sample data for training or correcting the prediction model.
Accordingly, when the sleep apnea detection operation is performed by the wearable device 100 for the wearer, the processor 110 can utilize the trained sleep apnea detection model to obtain a detection result according to the characteristic values sensed by the electrocardiogram sensor 130. Nevertheless, enough teaching, suggestion, and implementation illustration regarding algorithms and calculation modes for the trained neural network module 121 of the present embodiment may be obtained with reference to common knowledge in the related art, which is not repeated hereinafter.
In the present embodiment, the processor 110 executes the heart rate variability analysis module 240 to perform the heart rate variability analysis operation, so as to analyze a heart beat intervals variation RRI of the electrocardiogram signal ECG. The processor 110 calculates time intervals among adjacent R-waves within the segment of the electrocardiogram signal ECG to generate the heart beat intervals variation RRI signal. In the present embodiment, the processor 110 calculates a plurality of characteristic values according to the heart beat intervals variation RRI signal. In other words, the wearable device 100 capable of detecting sleep apnea event of the present embodiment can take into consideration of an effect of sympathetic nerve and parasympathetic nerve of the wearer on respiration.
In the present embodiment, the characteristic values obtained by the processor 110 include a heart beat interval mean, a heart rate (HR) value, a heart beat interval standard deviation (Standard Deviation of Normal to Normal; SDNN), a number of adjacent R-waves differences over 50 ms (Number of pairs of adjacent NN intervals differing by more than 50 ms in the entire recording; NN50), a ratio of the adjacent R-waves differences over 50 ms (NN50 count divided by the total number of all NN intervals), a root mean square of the adjacent R-waves differences (Root Mean Square of the Successive Differences; RMSSD), a vertical axis standard deviation (SD1), a horizontal axis standard deviation (SD2), and a first ratio (SD ratio) of the vertical axis standard deviation and the horizontal axis standard deviation in a Poincare plot, a low frequency range power (LFP), a high frequency range power, a total power (TP), a very low frequency range power (VLFP), a normalize low frequency power (nLFP), a normalize high frequency power (nHFP), and a second ratio (LF/HF) between a high frequency (HF) and a low frequency (LF). In other words, in the present embodiment, the processor 110 can execute the heart rate variability analysis module 240 to obtain the 16 characteristic values described above.
In the present embodiment, the processor 110 further calculates the R-wave angle EDRAG signal to obtain an R-wave angle mean, an R-wave angle standard deviation, an R-wave angle sample entropy (SE), and an R-wave angle detrended fluctuation analysis value (DFA). Further, the processor 110 estimates energy distributions of the R-wave angle EDRAG signal spaced by the 0.3 Hz within a frequency domain of 0 to 6 Hz. Here, 20 frequency domain intervals are provided such 20 characteristic values may be obtained. In other words, in the present embodiment, the processor 110 can execute R-wave angle analysis module 230 to generate the 24 characteristic values described above.
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In the present embodiment, the first characteristic values refer to the 24 characteristic values generated by the R-wave amplitude analysis operation described in the embodiment of
In addition, sufficient teaching, suggestion, and implementation regarding technical details of each of relevant elements or analysis operations of the wearable device 100 of the present embodiment of the disclosure may be obtained from the foregoing embodiments of
In summary, the wearable device capable of detecting sleep apnea event and the detection method of sleep apnea event of the disclosure can create the sleep apnea detection model in advance, and can effectively sense the electrocardiogram signal in the sleep situation so as to obtain 24 specific characteristic values of the electrocardiogram signal. Also, the processor of the wearable device of the disclosure can input the 64 specific characteristic values into the sleep apnea detection model for calculation in order to effectively obtain the apnea hypopnea index of the wearer. Accordingly, the wearable device of the disclosure can effectively and accurately determine whether the sleep situation of the wearer has the sleep apnea event according to the apnea hypopnea index. Furthermore, only the electrocardiogram sensor is required to be disposed in the wearable device of the disclosure. As a result, the wearable device of the disclosure can be made without complicated accessories to provide characteristics of convenience.
Although the present disclosure has been described with reference to the above embodiments, it will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that modifications to the described embodiments may be made without departing from the spirit of the disclosure. Accordingly, the scope of the disclosure will be defined by the attached claims and not by the above detailed descriptions.
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106140055 | Nov 2017 | TW | national |