Sleep apnea is a breathing disorder where a person repeatedly stops breathing in sleep. Early detection is crucial for infants because it might bring long term adversities. The existing accurate detection mechanism (pulse oximetry) is a skin contact measurement. The existing non-contact mechanisms (acoustics, video processing) are not accurate enough. This paper presents a novel algorithm for the detection of sleep apnea with video processing. The solution is non-contact, accurate and lightweight enough to run on a single board computer. The paper discusses the accuracy of the algorithm on real data, advantages of the new algorithm, its limitations and suggests future improvements.
@article{arxiv.1910.04725,
title = {Non-contact Infant Sleep Apnea Detection},
author = {Gihan Jayatilaka and Harshana Weligampola and Suren Sritharan and Pankayraj Pathmanathan and Roshan Ragel and Isuru Nawinne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.04725},
year = {2021}
}
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Gihan Jayatilaka, Harshana Weligampola and Suren Sritharan are equally contributing authors