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Abstract
Embodiments described herein may include systems and methods for detecting events that may be associated with sleep apnea. Some embodiments are directed to a system and/or method for automated detection of reduction in airflow events using polysomnograph signals, wherein the reduction in airflow events may relate to sleep apnea. The PSG signals may be limited to four signals, including data from an airflow channel, a blood oxygen saturation channel, a chest movement channel, and an abdomen movement channel. Using information from these channels, some embodiments may automatically identify reduction in airflow events.
Description
- This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/208,087 filed Sep. 10, 2008, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- The present disclosure relates generally to medical devices and methods and, more particularly, to an automated system and method for detecting events related to ventilatory instability, such as sleep apnea.
- This section is intended to introduce the reader to various aspects of art that may be related to various aspects of the present disclosure, which are described and/or claimed below. This discussion is believed to be helpful in providing the reader with background information to facilitate a better understanding of the various aspects of the present disclosure. Accordingly, it should be understood that these statements are to be read in this light, and not as admissions of prior art.
- Sleep apnea is generally described as a sleep disorder that is characterized by episodes of paused breathing during sleep. These episodes of paused breathing may occur repeatedly throughout sleep, and each episode may last long enough to cause one or more breaths to be missed. Such episodes may be referred to as apneas. A typical definition of an apnea may include an interval between breaths of at least 10 seconds, with a neurological arousal and/or a blood oxygen desaturation of 3% or greater. The actual duration and severity of each apnea may substantially vary between multiple patients. Further, duration and severity of apneas may vary throughout a period of sleep for a single patient. Indeed, sleep apnea may have a wide range of severity. For example, sleep apnea may include mild snoring, which may be related to incomplete and inconsequential airway obstruction, or severe apneas, which may result in hypoxemia. Sleep apnea commonly results in excessive daytime sleepiness. Further, sleep apnea can hinder cognitive function during the day due to sporadic sleep during the night resulting from recurrent arousals associated with the sleep apnea.
- Although sleep apnea commonly affects obese patients, it may occur in patients with any body type. Indeed, sleep apnea is fairly common and causes undesirable symptoms of excessive daytime sleepiness, morning headache, and decreasing ability to concentrate during the day. Thus, it is desirable to diagnose and treat sleep apnea. Traditionally, sleep apnea is diagnosed utilizing an overnight sleep test referred to as a polysomnogram. This is generally performed in a sleep lab and involves the continuous and simultaneous measurement and recording of an encephalogram, electromyogram, extraoculogram, chest wall plethysmogram, electrocardiogram, measurements of nasal and oral airflow, and pulse oximetry. All or some of these and other channels may be measured simultaneously throughout the night, and complex recordings of such measurement may then analyzed by a highly trained clinician to determine the presence or absence of sleep apnea.
- Advantages of the disclosure may become apparent upon reading the following detailed description and upon reference to the drawings in which:
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FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a medical analysis system in accordance with some embodiments; -
FIG. 2 is a process flow diagram of a method for detecting ventilatory instability related events in accordance with some embodiments; -
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a device and/or module capable of receiving and filtering signals in accordance with some embodiments; -
FIG. 4 is a process flow diagram of a method for estimating a value for breathes per minute of a patient in accordance with some embodiments; and -
FIG. 5 is a block diagram of the system ofFIG. 1 communicatively coupled with a separate ventilatory instability detection system to facilitate calibration of the separate system in accordance with some embodiments. - One or more embodiments of the present disclosure will be described below. In an effort to provide a concise description of the embodiments, not all features of an actual implementation are described in the specification. It should be appreciated that in the development of any such actual implementation, as in any engineering or design project, numerous implementation-specific decisions may be made to achieve the developers' specific goals, such as compliance with system-related and business-related constraints, which may vary from one implementation to another. Moreover, it should be appreciated that such a development effort might be complex and time consuming, but would nevertheless be a routine undertaking of design, fabrication, and manufacture for those of ordinary skill having the benefit of this disclosure.
- Some embodiments are directed to automated systems and methods for detecting events that may be associated with sleep apnea. Specifically, some embodiments are directed to a system and/or method for automated detection of reduction in airflow events using polysomnograph (PSG) signals, wherein the reduction in airflow events may relate to sleep apnea. The PSG signals may be limited to four signals, including data from an airflow channel, a blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) channel, a chest movement channel, and an abdomen movement channel. Using information from these channels, some embodiments may automatically identify reduction in airflow events.
- Accordingly, some embodiments may facilitate automated detection and/or diagnosis of sleep apnea in patients. For example, some embodiments may be utilized to analyze data that has been acquired using a separate PSG system to determine whether sleep apnea related events have occurred. In another example, some embodiments may be incorporated with a PSG system to automatically detect and/or diagnose sleep apnea while a patient is being monitored. Indeed, some embodiments may facilitate detection of events relating to sleep apnea and/or facilitate diagnosis of sleep apnea in real time. Further, some embodiments may be utilized to demonstrate or confirm the accuracy or reliability of other systems and/or methods for detecting events related to sleep apnea. For example, some embodiments may be utilized in conjunction with a device configured to identify ventilatory instability (e.g., sleep apnea) based on an SpO2 pattern recognition algorithm.
- In some embodiments, a distinction may be made between whether identified sleep apnea events correspond to central sleep apnea or obstructive sleep apnea. Central and obstructive sleep apnea may be distinguished based on the nature of their occurrence. For example, a lack of effort in breathing is generally the cause of interrupted breathing associated with central sleep apnea, while a physical block in airflow despite effort is generally the cause of interrupted breathing associated with obstructive sleep apnea. If a patient is or is not making an effort to breathe, the patient's chest and abdomen activity may be indicative. Accordingly, some embodiments may distinguish between the two types of apnea by including devices or modules that are capable of quantifying phase differences between chest and abdomen signals. For example, some embodiments may include an algorithm stored on a memory that receives chest and abdomen signals and determines that certain events correspond to obstructive sleep apnea when the chest and abdomen signals are out of phase, or that the events correspond to central sleep apnea when there is no chest and/or abdomen movement, or there is a decrease in chest and abdomen movement but signals are in phase.
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FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a medical analysis system in accordance with some embodiments. The medical analysis system is generally indicated byreference numeral 10. Thesystem 10 includes aPSG system 12 and an event detection (ED)system 14. ThePSG system 12 and theED system 14 may be separate or integrated in accordance with some embodiments. ThePSG system 12 may include, for example, hardware and/or software products from Nellcor Puritan Bennett's Sandman® sleep diagnostics line of products. - According to an embodiment, the
PSG system 12 may include a memory 16 and a processor 18, and theED system 14 may include amemory 20 and aprocessor 22. Programming stored on therespective memories 16 and 20 for thePSG system 12 and theED system 14 may be utilized in conjunction with each system'srespective processor 18 and 22 to facilitate performance of certain functions by thePSG system 12 and theED system 14. For example, thememories 16 and 20 may include coded instructions that may be utilized with therespective processors 18 and 22 to perform automated methods in accordance with some embodiments. It should be noted that, in some embodiments, thememories 16 and 20 may be integral with therespective processors 18 and 22. Further, if thePSG system 12 andED system 14 are integral components of thesystem 10, the integratedPSG system 12 andED system 14 may share a single memory and/or a single processor. - According to an embodiment, the
PSG system 12 may be capable of receiving signals fromvarious sensors 24 that are capable of measuring certain physiologic parameters or patient activities. Specifically, thesensors 24 may include anairflow sensor 26, achest sensor 28, anabdomen sensor 30, and apulse oximeter sensor 32. Each of thesensors 24 may be attached to apatient 34 to facilitate measuring physiologic parameters and/or physical activity (e.g., movement) of thepatient 34. These four measured values from thesensors 24 may be transmitted as signals to thePSG system 12 for processing. Thus, thesensors 24 may cooperate with thePSG system 12 to provide a polysomnogram. A polysomnogram may be described as a recording of an individual's sleep characteristics (e.g., activities and physiological events occurring during sleep), which may include an output of various measurements obtained by thesensors 24. Such an output may be recorded on a memory (e.g., a flash memory or hard drive), presented on other tangible medium (e.g., printed on paper), or visually displayed (e.g., displayed as video). For example, the polysomnogram, along with other data, may be displayed on avideo screen 36 of themedical analysis system 10. - According to an embodiment, the
ED system 14 may be capable of using data acquired by thePSG system 12, such as the polysomnogram, to automatically detect events that may be associated with sleep apnea. For example, theED system 14 may automatically detect reduction in airflow events, which relate to sleep apnea, using four PSG signals from thePSG system 12. The PSG signals may be transferred to theED system 14 from thePSG system 14 in a number of ways. For example, data corresponding to signals from thePSG system 12 may be manually entered into theED system 14, transferred via a memory device (e.g., a flash memory), or directly transmitted to theED system 14 from thePSG system 12 for analysis. ThePSG system 12 and theED system 14 may receive and/or transmit signals corresponding to particular signal types based on data in a memory (e.g., a flash memory or a memory of the PSG system 12) and/or directly from each of thesensors 24. The PSG signals and/or signal data may be referred to as channels corresponding to each signal, such as airflow, chest, abdomen, and pulse oximetry channels. - According to an embodiment, once the
ED system 14 receives the PSG signals, which may be in the form of signal data, theED system 14 may perform an automated process on the PSG signals to identify events related to sleep apnea, such as reduction in airflow events. If certain events are identified in accordance with specified rules or criteria, theED system 14 may provide an indication of the presence of ventilatory instability. For example, theED system 14 may include hardware and/or software components that filter one or more of the PSG signals and identify characteristics of the signals that combine to suggest the presence of events related to sleep apnea. Specifically, for example, after checking for invalid data, filtered and unfiltered PSG signals may be utilized by theED system 14 to estimate a value of breathes per minute (BPM) of thepatient 34. The estimated BPM may then be utilized by theED system 14 to calculate a baseline for use in determining whether a threshold level of airflow reduction is present. Further, theED system 14 may determine whether certain other events indicative of respiratory instability are present based on the PSG signals, as will be discussed in further detail below. TheED system 14 may output values indicative of whether respiratory instability is present based on whether certain events were identified. For example, theED system 14 may indicate the presence of sleep apnea and/or indicate a type of sleep apnea (e.g., central or obstructive) based on results obtained through analysis of a neural network of theED system 14. It should be noted that the identification of events by theED system 14 may be facilitated by an algorithm stored in thememory 20, which may cooperate with theprocessor 22 to implement methods in accordance with some embodiments. It should further be noted that the algorithm may be tuned by adjusting constant values in the algorithm to correspond to particular situations or patients (e.g., a patient with a heart condition). -
FIG. 2 is a process flow diagram illustrating a method in accordance with some embodiments. The method is generally indicated byreference number 100 and includes various steps or actions represented by blocks. It should be noted that themethod 100 may be performed as an automated procedure by a system, such as theanalysis system 10. Further, certain steps or portions of the method may be performed by separate devices. For example, a first portion of themethod 100 may be performed by thePSG system 12 and a second portion of themethod 100 may be performed by theED system 14. In this embodiment, the method includes receiving and filtering signals (block 102), checking for invalid data (block 104), estimating BPM (block 106), determining a signal baseline for certain signals (block 108), determining whether certain criteria are met by acquired data (block 110), and outputting a result (block 112). - According to an embodiment, the
method 100 begins with receiving and filtering signals, which may include signal data, as represented byblock 102.Block 102 may include receiving and/or filtering signal data from several sensors, which may include theairflow sensor 26, thechest sensor 28, theabdomen sensor 30, and/or thepulse oximeter sensor 32. Specifically, block 102 may represent receiving data or signals from airflow, chest, abdomen, and pulse oximetry channels and filtering signals on a subset of the channels. Signals on the chest, airflow, and abdomen channels may be filtered, while signals on the pulse oximetry channel, which may relate to SpO2 data, may remain unfiltered. For example,FIG. 3 illustrates acomponent 300 capable of filtering the chest, airflow, and abdomen channels in accordance with some embodiments. In some embodiments, thecomponent 300 may be a feature of the processor, or it may be implemented using electronic circuits which preprocess and filter some or all of the PSG signals, 22. Specifically, as illustrated inFIG. 3 , araw signal 302 from thePSG system 12, such as a signal on the chest, airflow or abdomen channel, may be received into thecomponent 300 of the ED system 114. Theraw signal 302 may pass through thecomponent 300, which may include passing the raw signal through a band-pass filter 304 and a low-pass filter 306 of thecomponent 300. - According to an embodiment, the band-pass filter 304 may pass frequencies within a selected range and attenuate frequencies that are outside of the selected range. Specifically, for example, the band-
pass filter 30 may include a 0.0833-1 Hz band-pass filter that operates to pass frequencies corresponding to 5-60 BPM and filter out frequencies above and below that range. An initial or default 5-60 BPM pass band may be used since most human breathing rates will be within this range under typical sleep-lab conditions. The pass band may be tuned (moved, narrowed, and/or widened) by the operator based on known patient conditions to increase the specificity and/or sensitivity of the ED system. Once theraw signal 302 has passed through the band-pass filter 304, it becomes a band-passedsignal 308. The band-passedsignal 308 may be utilized in conjunction with other input in the analysis and identification of ventilatory instability, as will be discussed in further detail below. - According to an embodiment, the low-
pass filter 306 may pass frequencies below a cutoff level and attenuate frequencies higher than the cutoff level. Specifically, for example, the low-pass filter 306 may attenuate frequencies lower than 0.04166 Hz, which corresponds to 2.5 BPM. 2.5 BPM may be selected as the initial cutoff level since it is unlikely that any patient will breathe slower than this rate, and therefore frequencies below this level can be considered noise, or more specifically these frequencies can be considered the DC offset of the PSG signal. The operator may move the low pass filter level based on known patient conditions in an attempt to increase the specificity and sensitivity of the ED system. Once theraw signal 302 has passed through the low-pass filter 306, it becomes a low-passedsignal 310. The low-passedsignal 310 may be used to calculate anoise signal 312 by passing it through a subtraction block 314 with theraw signal 302 to get a difference between theraw signal 302 and the low-passedsignal 310. This and other features of noise calculation will be discussed in further detail below. The calculated noise level may be utilized to clarify signal features by reducing noise content. In some embodiments, features may be included that facilitate reading data through the noise, rather than merely removing the noise. - According to an embodiment, after the signals have been received and/or filtered in
block 102, themethod 100 may proceed to block 104, which includes checking for invalid data. Specifically, block 104 may represent receiving and processing a stream of data to determine whether any portions of the data meet criteria indicating that the data should be discarded. For example, block 104 may represent receiving a 10 minute segment of data that is analyzed to determine if the following criteria are present: (1) the SpO2 signal is less than a designated value (e.g., less than a value of 20% SpO2, which may indicate that the sensor is off or disconnected), (2) the signal to noise ratio for a signal on the airflow channel is less than a designated value (e.g., 5 dB), (3) the signal to noise ratio for a signal on the chest channel is less than a designated value (e.g., 0 dB), and/or (4) a signal to noise ratio (SNR) for a signal on the abdomen channel is less than a designated value (e.g., 0 dB). If it is determined in block 104 that any of the designated criteria, such as the criteria set forth above, are present for a designated period, e.g., 2 minutes, within the minute segment of data, all or part of the 10 minute segment of data may be discarded as being invalid. In some embodiments, features may be included that facilitate reading through data with a SNR below a threshold, rather than merely invalidating data because of low SNR values. - It should be noted that the signal to noise ratios referenced above may be automatically calculated in block 104 along with other determinations relating to identifying invalid data. For example, block 104 may represent calculating the signal to noise ratio for a particular signal by first removing DC from the
raw signal 302. That is, the low-passed signal 310 (LPFilteredSignal) may be subtracted from the raw signal 302 (RawSignal) to obtain a raw signal without DC (RawSignalNoDC). This procedure may be represented by the following equation: -
RawSignalNoDc=RawSignal−LPFilteredSignal. - Noise may then be calculated by subtracting the band-passed signal 308 (BPSignal) from the raw signal without DC. This procedure may be represented by the following equation:
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Noise=RawSignalNoDC−BPSignal. - A statistical measure of magnitude, such as a root mean square, may then be obtained for both the noise and the band-passed signal, and the signal to noise ratio (SNR) may be calculated by dividing the root mean square of the band-passed signal (RMS(Signal)) by the root mean square of the noise (RMS(Noise)), as represented by the following equation:
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SNR=RMS(Signal)/RMS(Noise). - As will be appreciated, in some embodiments, different calculations or procedures may be utilized to obtain the signal to noise ratio.
- According to an embodiment, after invalid data has been removed in block 104, the
method 100 may proceed to determine an estimated BPM based on the received data, as represented byblock 106. As illustrated inFIG. 4 , the BPM estimate may be calculated using the chest, abdomen, and airflow signals.FIG. 4 is a process flow diagram of a method of estimating BPM in accordance with some embodiments. The method of estimating BPM is generally indicated byreference number 400 and includes various steps or actions represented by blocks. As with the other steps of themethod 100, themethod 400 may be performed as an automated procedure by thesystem 100 in accordance with some embodiments. - According to an embodiment, the
method 400 begins by receiving band-passed airflow, chest, and abdomen signals, and converting the signals to the frequency domain by performing a fast Fourier transform (FFT) on all three channels, as represented byblock 402. Specifically, block 402 may represent determining an FFT for the three channels a certain number of times per time period. For example, block 402 may represent calculating an FFT for the band-passed airflow, chest, and abdomen signals once every 2 minutes. - According to an embodiment, after performing the frequency conversion in
block 402, themethod 400 may proceed to block 404, which represents normalizing the frequency spectrums obtained inblock 402. The procedure represented byblock 404 may include various different types of normalization, which may result in ranging the frequency spectrums from 0.0 to 1.0. For example, peak normalization may be performed by dividing the amplitude at each point in the spectrum of each signal by the maximum amplitude of that particular spectrum. Thus, the normalized spectrum may include intensities that range from as low as 0.0 to as high as 1.0. By normalizing the spectrums, certain discrepancies between the spectrums may be removed to facilitate proper combination or comparison of the different spectrums. It should be noted that each spectrum may be based on a segment of data, such as a 10 minute segment of recorded sensor data. - According to an embodiment, after the spectrums have been normalized in
block 404, all three frequency spectrums may be averaged, as represented byblock 406, and an estimate of BPM may be calculated based on the average, as represented byblock 408. Specifically, blocks 406 and 408 may include averaging all of the histograms of the frequency spectrums and selecting a frequency from the average that has the highest amount of energy to determine the estimate BPM for the associated segment of data. This procedure may be represented by the following equation: -
BPM Estimate=max(Average Frequency Spectrum). - According to an embodiment, the process of providing BPM estimates for a segment of data may be repeated for a series of data segments, as represented by
arrow 410. The most recent BPM estimate obtained for a data segment may be referred to as the current estimate and the penultimate BPM estimate obtained for a previous data segment may be referred to as the previous estimate. In other words, once a new segment of data has been received and processed, the BPM estimate that was the current estimate may become the previous segment and the BPM estimate for the most recent segment of data may become the current estimate. As represented byblock 412, the current and previous estimates may be averaged to provide a final BPM estimate, as represented by the following equation: -
Final BPM Estimate=0.5×(Current Estimate+Previous Estimate). - It should be noted that in some embodiments, more than two estimates may be averaged to determine the final BPM estimate. For example, three or more estimates for a series of data segments may be stored and averaged to determine a final BPM estimate in accordance with some embodiments.
- According to an embodiment, after estimating BPM in
block 106, themethod 100 may proceed to determining a signal baseline for each signal, as represented byblock 108. Specifically, for example, block 108 may include calculating a signal baseline for the airflow, chest, and abdomen signals. In performing this calculation, a root mean square value for the signal (e.g., the raw signal 302) may first be obtained using the final BPM estimate and a running root mean square, as indicated by the following equation: -
Xrms=0.5 BPM running RMS signal X. - This calculation may take into account every point of a signal such that the results are indicative of the power of the signal at each point. The baseline value (X-Baseline) for each particular signal may then be determined based on this root mean square value (Xrms). Specifically, the baseline may be determined as the top 10% or ninetieth percentile of the root mean square value, as represented by the following equation:
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X-Baseline=Top 10% (90th percentile) of Xrms. - According to an embodiment, once a baseline has been determined for the airflow, chest, and abdomen signals, as represented by
block 108, themethod 100 may proceed with determining whether certain criteria are met, as represented by block 110. The presence of characteristics that meet certain criteria may indicate and confirm that a reduction in airflow (RAF) event occurred relative to a normal airflow. For example, a determination may be made as to whether a certain level of reduction (e.g., a 40% reduction) in airflow has occurred for at least a threshold amount of time (e.g., 10 seconds). This may be referred to as an RAF event. Specifically, in one embodiment, an RAF event may be described as an interval where the amplitude envelope of a signal on the airflow channel from thePSG system 12 is reduced at least 40% relative to the baseline for at least 10 seconds consecutively. It should be noted that the amplitude envelope may refer to the value of a function describing how the maximum amplitude of the airflow signal changes over time. - According to an embodiment, once an RAF event has been identified, it may be qualified for consideration based on certain scoring rules. For example, an RAF event may be disqualified if there is not a specified amount of change in one or more other signal measurements within a certain window of time with respect to the time the RAF event occurred. For example, if the measured SpO2 value does not change at least a certain amount, e.g., 3%, during the RAF event or within a certain time, e.g., 30 seconds, after the RAF event, the RAF event may be disqualified. Similarly, for example, if there is not at least a certain change, e.g., a 40% reduction, in the chest or abdomen signal from the
PSG system 12 for at least part, e.g., half, of the interval of the RAF event, the RAF event may be disqualified. Alternatively, if the available data meets these criteria, the RAF event may be qualified and used to determine whether the data is indicative of ventilatory instability in the patient that was or is being monitored. - According to an embodiment, block 110 may also represent determining whether a segment of data includes an indication of ventilatory instability based on a quantity of qualified RAF events that occur within the data segment. For example, block 110 may determine that a particular data segment is indicative of ventilatory instability if a certain number, e.g., at least 5, of consecutive RAF events are qualified within a given portion, e.g., a 10 minute period, of the segment of data. Thus, segments of data may be divided into intervals, e.g., 10 minute intervals, in accordance with some embodiments. It should be noted that in order for the RAF events to be qualified as being consecutive, certain relative timing criteria may have to be met. For example, in one embodiment, for a pair of qualified RAF events to be consecutive, the RAF events must occur within a certain time, e.g., 120 seconds, of one another.
- According to an embodiment, block 110 may also represent determining a type of respiratory event, such as determining the presence of central or obstructive sleep apnea based on correlations between different signals, such as the chest and abdomen signals being in or out of phase. As discussed above, central and obstructive sleep apnea may be distinguished based on the nature of their occurrence. For example, a lack of effort in breathing is generally associated with central sleep apnea, while a physical block in airflow despite effort is generally associated with obstructive sleep apnea. A patient's chest and abdomen activity may be utilized to distinguish between the two types of apnea. Accordingly, some embodiments may include features that are capable of quantifying phase differences between chest and abdomen signals. For example, some embodiments may include features that determine that certain events correspond to obstructive sleep apnea when the chest and abdomen signals are out of phase, or that the events correspond to central sleep apnea when there is no chest and/or abdomen movement, or there is a decrease in chest and abdomen movement but signals are in phase.
- Based on the criteria or rules discussed above, the
method 100 may output an epoch score for each data segment, as represented byblock 112. For example, an epoch score may be repeated once every time a segment of data has been analyzed (e.g., once every 10 minutes). In some embodiments, a system may utilize such a score in an algorithm to provide an indication of certain conditions relating to ventilatory instability. For example, the epoch score may include a value of 1 for an indication that sleep apnea has been detected, 0 for an indication that sleep apnea has not been detected, or −1 for an indication of invalid data. The indicator provided by the system based on the score may include a textual indication of the detected condition, such as “sleep apnea detected,” “sleep apnea not detected”, or “unknown or invalid data.” In some embodiments, a series of epoch scores may be combined for all or part of a sleep study to generate an aggregate score. For example, an average of all of the scores for each 10 minute segment of a sleep cycle may be used to determine a summary score for a particular patient. - Further, in some embodiments, the severity of the ventilatory instability or apnea events may be quantified instead of merely providing binary outputs. For example, the depth of the airflow reduction may be used to quantify a severity of the ventilatory instability. In some embodiments different aspects associated with qualified RAF events may be used to determine levels of severity. For example, a series of continually larger drops in airflow and/or continual failures to return to a baseline level of airflow may be correlated to a higher level of severity. Further, numerous clusters of RAF events or data segments including RAF events may be considered in determining a severity level. For example, a large segment of data, e.g., 4 hours of data, may include various sub-segments having different levels of apnea. Each sub-segment may be analyzed separately based on certain criteria, such as a number of RAF events per time period, an amount of reduced airflow, or other characteristics, and the values associated with the sub-segments may be combined to provide an overall ventilatory instability level for the large segment of data.
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ED system 14 may be utilized to demonstrate or confirm that other systems involving detection of ventilatory instability related events are properly calibrated and/or providing results that correlate to the results obtained by theED system 14. For example,FIG. 5 is a block diagram of theED system 14 communicatively coupled with a separateventilation analysis system 500 to facilitate calibration of thesystem 500 or to confirm its proper operation. The separateventilation analysis system 500 may include a system such as that described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,223,064. For example, thesystem 500 may include an SpO2 pattern recognition system that is utilized to identify ventilatory instability based on a series of SpO2 values. Thesystem 500 may include amemory 502 and aprocessor 504 that are capable of analyzing input received or previously acquired from a single SpO2 sensor. Specifically, thesystem 500 may be capable of identifying certain patterns or clusters of measured SpO2 values to identify events related to ventilatory instability. - According to an embodiment, the
ED system 14 may facilitate adjustment and/or calibration of thesystem 500 to correlate with BPM estimates determined by theED system 14. For example, bothsystems storage device 506, wherein the data corresponds to certain ventilatory instability events that have been observed. During a calibration period, thesystem 500 may be adjusted to correspond to theED system 14. In other words, thesystem 500 may be adjusted such that it detects a high percentage of the ventilatory instability events detected by theED system 14. For example, certain coefficients of an algorithm stored on the memory of thesystem 500 may be adjusted to improve correlations between the results for thesystem 500 and the results for theED system 14. - In a specific example, the
ED system 14 may utilize automated analysis of the data obtained via thevarious sensors 24 to confirm that thesystem 500 is properly tuned and/or providing corresponding output. Specifically, theED system 14 may receive data from thestorage device 506 corresponding to airflow, chest impedance, abdomen impedance, and blood oxygen saturation, and use this data to provide results that include a BPM estimate. These results may be compared with similar results obtained by thesystem 500 using SpO2 pattern recognition. Based on the comparison, certain features of the system 500 (e.g., features of a pattern recognition algorithm stored on the memory 502) may be adjusted to achieve a desired correspondence. The automated analysis provided by theED system 14 may facilitate rapid adjustment and/or testing of systems such as thesystem 500. - Specific embodiments have been shown by way of example in the drawings and have been described in detail herein. However, it should be understood that the claims are not intended to be limited to the particular forms disclosed. Rather, the claims are to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within their spirit and scope.
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1. A method for automated detection of ventilatory instability, comprising:
calculating an output value of breathes per minute for a data segment based at least in part upon signals of an airflow channel, a chest channel, and/or an abdomen channel and/or combinations thereof;
determining a baseline value for each of the airflow channel, the chest channel, and the abdomen channel based at least in part upon the output value of breathes per minute and/or a measure of the magnitude of the corresponding signals;
determining whether a reduction in airflow above a minimum reduction level relative to the baseline value for the airflow channel has been maintained for a period of time, and identifying a reduction in airflow event if the reduction in airflow is above the minimum reduction level; and
providing an indication of ventilatory instability if the reduction in airflow event is identified and meets a set of criteria.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising converting the signals of the airflow channel, the chest channel, and/or the abdomen channel to a frequency domain to determine a plurality of frequency spectrums, wherein the plurality of frequency spectrums comprises an airflow channel frequency spectrum, a chest channel frequency spectrum, and/or an abdomen channel frequency spectrum.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein calculating the output value of breathes per minute comprises determining a highest frequency of an average of the plurality of frequency spectrums.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein calculating the output value of breathes per minute comprises averaging an estimate of breathes per minute for each of a plurality of data segments based at least in part upon the signals of the airflow channel, the chest channel, and/or the abdomen channel and/or combinations thereof.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining whether a criterion is met that requires a pulse oximetry channel to change by a defined percentage within a window of time generally relative to the reduction in airflow event.
6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising determining whether the pulse oximetry channel has changed by at least 3% relative to its baseline within 30 second of the reduction in airflow event to determine if the criterion is met.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining whether a criterion is met that requires a reduction in the chest channel and/or the abdomen channel relative to the respective baseline values for a defined portion of the reduction in airflow event.
8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising determining whether there was at least a 40% reduction relative to the respective baseline values in the chest channel and/or the abdomen channel for at least half of the reduction in airflow event to determine if the criterion is met.
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising discarding invalid data corresponding to the airflow channel, the pulse oximetry channel, the chest channel, and the abdomen channel based on whether certain indicators are present in an associated data segment.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data segment comprises a 10 minute data segment.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the minimum reduction level relative to the baseline value for the airflow channel comprises a 40% reduction relative to the baseline value for the airflow channel.
12. The method of claim 1 , comprising determining whether the reduction in airflow above the minimum reduction level relative to the baseline value for the airflow channel has been maintained for 10 seconds or more.
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26. The method claim 1 , further comprising determining if the reduction in airflow event is qualified by determining whether a specified amount of change has occurred in the chest channel or the abdomen channel during a window of time including the reduction in airflow event.
27. The method of claim 1 , further comprising filtering at least one of the airflow channel, the chest channel, and the abdomen channel.
28. A method, comprising:
supplying signals of an airflow channel, a chest channel, an abdomen channel, and a pulse oximetry channel;
calculating a baseline value for each of the airflow channel, the chest channel, and the abdomen channel based at least in part upon a value of breaths per minute and a measure of the magnitude of the corresponding signals;
identifying a reduction in airflow event when a reduction in airflow above a minimum reduction level relative to the baseline value for the airflow channel has been maintained for a threshold period of time;
determining if the reduction in airflow event is qualified by determining whether a specified amount of change has occurred in the chest channel, the abdomen channel, or the pulse oximetry channel during a window of time including the reduction in airflow event;
identifying ventilatory instability based at least in part upon a series of blood oxygen saturation values; and
comparing results from the event detection system and the pulse oximetry pattern recognition system to facilitate adjustment of the pulse oximetry pattern recognition system.
29. The method of claim 28 , further comprising calculating the value of breaths per minute for a data segment based on signals of the airflow channel, the chest channel, and/or the abdomen channel and/or combinations thereof.
30. The method of claim 28 , further comprising calculating the value of breaths per minute by averaging an estimate of breathes per minute for each of a plurality of data segments based at least in part upon the signals of the airflow channel, the chest channel, and/or the abdomen channel and/or combinations thereof.
31. The method of claim 28 , further comprising providing an indication of ventilatory instability on a display if the reduction in airflow event is identified and qualified.
32. The method of claim 28 , further comprising:
converting the signals of the airflow channel, the chest channel, and/or the abdomen channel to a frequency domain; and
determining a plurality of frequency spectrums, wherein the plurality of frequency spectrums comprises an airflow channel frequency spectrum, a chest channel frequency spectrum, and/or an abdomen channel frequency spectrum.
33. The method of claim 32 , further comprising calculating an output value of breaths per minute for a data segment based on determining a highest frequency of an average of the plurality of frequency spectrums.
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