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Research Article - Neuropsychiatry (2017) Volume 7, Issue 6

Analysis of Efficient Biometric Index using Heart Rate Variability for Remote Monitoring of Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Corresponding Author:
Wanqing Wu
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenzhen 518055, China
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Abstract

Abstract

Objective: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) associated health problems are undiagnosed due to the expensive and realistic limitations of overnight PSG examination. In this research, an accurate and resource-efficient biometric index is proposed for remote monitoring of the OSA patients having universal property at all body postures.

Methods:In this study, the analysis of 44 subjects determines that the Heart Rate Variability (HRV) parameters including time and frequency domains such as ratio of Standard Deviation of NN interval (SDNN) and Root-Mean-Squared of the Successive Differences (RMSSD), termed as SRR; and LHR (ratio between normalized Low to High-Frequency power) can be taken into consideration to develop reasonable accurate and cost-efficient indexes for OSA levels measurement.

Results: The experimental results elaborate that the OSA is considered to be severe (SRR ≥ 1.8, LHR ≥ 1.6), moderate (1.45

Conclusion: This study concludes that SRR is easy to compute, guarantee a high degree of accuracy, resource efficient and ensure better correlation (with RDI and AHI) than LHR. Therefore, this study suggests that SRR obtained from wearable devices can be utilized as a convenient index
for remote monitoring of OSA levels.

 

 

Keywords

Efficiency, Healthcare, Heart rate variability, Obstructive sleep apnea

Introduction

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is an inhalation chaos, which occurs during sleep due to partially or completely squeezing of the upper airway of the patients [1-3]. Main symptoms caused by apnea disorder are given as high blood pressure, increased heart rate, and poor concentration during work, slower reaction times, extreme fatigue, and a compromised immune system [4,5]. The World Health Organization has stated that approximately100 million people worldwide have OSA [6]. However, less than one-fourth of them are identified being affected of OSA [7,8], it is owing to complicated, and less affordable methods for diagnosing OSA. Therefore, it is much needed to develop an accurate, less complex, and reliable biometric index for monitoring OSA occurrence to the vast extent among affected patients.

The typical method to diagnose OSA includes an overnight polysomnography (PSG) examination at sleep labs [9-11]. The PSG information is further used to define indexes such as apnea-hypopnea index(AHI) and respiratory disturbance index (RDI) to signify the occurrence of OSA events. Although PSG is the mainly effectual technique to monitor OSA, however, it is reasonably difficult for patients to be in similar position during the whole night. Furthermore, substantial capital investment is required for PSG examination, because it involves a devoted laboratory, special apparatus, and an attending staff [12]. Several techniques incorporate bio-signal based parameters to analyze OSA instead of utilizing traditional PSG method [13-18]. ECG signal is a mainly noteworthy signal type to study since it sanctions physiological demonstration of OSA events and is suitable to record using wearable sensors [19-21].

Recent innovations in technologies have prompted the growth in remote health monitoring of OSA diagnosis. Thus, contactfree sensors based approaches are developed using infrared and bio-radar for detecting the physiological signals. Pereira, et al. proposed an algorithm for remote monitoring of breathing rate by means of infrared thermal imaging [22]. Kagawa, et al. proposed a method for identifying the three types of sleep apnea on basis of time fluctuating baseline of radar amplitudes [23]. Qi, et al. developed a technique using wavelet information entropy spectrum to judge OSA respiratory signal detected by bio-radar in wavelet domain [24]. However, infrared sensors require strict positional restraints and the region of interest must not be blocked [23]. These constraints are not easily be satisfied during natural sleep. Similarly, the bio-radar, which merges the technology of biomedical engineering and radar for physiological measurement, can be used only for stationary subjects [25], and it will be difficult to maintain the quality of the signal and resulting in an inappropriate diagnosis of OSA. Thus, contact-free sensors can be good for applications, where subjects are in fix position such as sitting and standing.

However, over last decade, several wearable health monitoring systems with the characteristics of comfort, reliability, and sufficient quality, have been designed in hospitals and real-life circumstances. The wearable sensing technology has proved to be a promising solution to assist in acquiring and processing of multiple physiological features in order to provide an early recognition of pathological symptoms and improving the healing rate of disease without superseding in the patient’s daily routine. Hence, it is very significant to propose an effective statistical index which could monitor OSA events for individuals at different body postures in a distinct environment’s.

This study aims to develop efficient biometric index using Heart Rate Variability (HRV) for analyzing different OSA levels (server, moderate and mild). The conducted experiment elaborates that the ratio of Standard Deviation of NN interval (SDNN) and Root-Mean-Squared of the Successive Differences (RMSSD) termed as SRR), and LHR (ratio between normalized LF and HF power) are useful indexes for investigating OSA events. This research validates that along with frequency-domain (LHR) approaches of HRV, time-domain (SRR) can also be used for estimating OSA occurrence. From the comparative analysis, it is elaborated that LHR and SRR are resource efficient indexes than those indexes (i-e RDI and AHI) obtained from PSG examination. In this study, Polysomnography (PSG) method is used as a reference to acquiring indexes such as AHI and RDI to signify the occurrence of OSA events. Moreover, SRR is easy to compute, guarantee a high degree of accuracy, resource efficient and ensure better correlation (with RDI and AHI) than LHR. Therefore, this study suggests that SRR obtained from wearable devices can be utilized as a convenient index for remote monitoring of OSA levels.

The remaining paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, the efficient biometric index for OSA monitoring is explained. Section 3 includes the architecture of healthcare system for remote monitoring of OSA followed experimental results and discussion in Section 4. Finally, the conclusion is presented in Section 5.

Efficient Biometric Index for OSA Monitoring

In this study, a total of 44 patients (male 28, female 16) aged from 20-68 years were included for examining OSA events. However, 20 of them are for trail experiment, and remaining 24 patients are used for test experiment. The mean and standard deviation of age, height, Body Mass Index (BMI), the weight of subjects is;36.8 ± 11.5 years,165.1 ± 12.3 cm, 28.6 ± 2.5 Kg/m2, 81.8 ± 14.5 Kg respectively. Clinical Ethics Committee of the Xili People Hospital of Shenzhen; China had approved the protocol for this research study. The written informed consent was acquired from every patient before the experiment.

This research includes an adaptive QRS detection algorithm to measure calculate the HRV of 44 patients, which is easy to implement on real-time wearable devices developed by our laboratory in a previous study, having 99.3% detection rate to extract RR interval series for HRV analysis[26]. The HRV is computed in time-domain and frequency-domain, based on standards of measurement, developed by the Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology.

The spectral analysis of HRV may offer a quantitative assessment and estimation of the nervous system. The LHR is utilized to specify stability between both components of ANS action (the sympathetic and parasympathetic). Furthermore, statically calculated index of low frequency (LF) and high frequency (HF) can be used to calculate the important factors for autonomic misbalance. Hence, this ratio is very useful for diagnosing OSA.

The time-domain analysis is the easiest to perform since they are applied straight to the series of successive RR interval values. Also, several variables that measure the variability within the RR series exist. As ECG signal for heart beats are in the chain of time intervals, therefore the evaluation of HRV in the time-domain has the advantage of the reduction in complexity during its calculation and save more resources.

image (1)

Whereas ; image represents R-to-R interval, mean of R-to-R interval and a number of peaks of ECG waveform, respectively.

According to Sollers, et al. [27] SRR is an efficient biometric index in comparisons with LHR for different healthcare applications. The HRV measurement for time-domain can decrease complexity for computation and also provide resource efficient biometric index than the frequency-domain based index since heart beats of ECG information are recorded in time series [28,29]. In this study, it is verified from a detailed experiment on 44 subjects that SRR can be utilized as a convenient, resource-efficient and accurate biometric index for remote monitoring of OSA affected patients. Different OSA levels (severe, moderate or mild) can be analyzed by following relationship on basis of SRR and LHR:

Severe OSA : SRR ≥ 1.8, LHR ≥ 1.6

Moderate OSA : 1.45<SRR ≥ 1.8, 0.9< LHR ≥ 1.6

Mild OSA : 0.4<SRR ≥ 1.45, 0.2< LHR ≥ 0.9

Normal : 0.4 ≥ SRR, 0.1 ≥ LHR

Furthermore, in this study, the relationship of SRR and LHR with OSA events is verified by comparing their statistical correlation with traditional indexes (RDI and AHI).

▪ Tele-monitoring system for OSA

The general architecture of healthcare system for telemedicine includes three tiers as shown in Figure 1. In the first tier, coordinator receives the vital information from the wearable device. The integration of components such as; Intel Galileo Board, HKD-10A sensor, and Wi-Fi module (N-2230) is acting as a medical device to capture ECG signal from the human body (as detailed in our previous work [30]). For measuring ECG, two electrodes El and E2 are situated on the chest near to heart, while third reference electrode E3 is positioned on right leg. This arrangement enables to produce neat and clean ECG signal having high R-peak amplitude values and QRS complex can be found easily. Furthermore, bio-signal is stored at the server in the second part. However, data transmission time between two ends is approx. 0.20milliseconds. Therefore, remote healthcare is preferred for OSA monitoring for examining critical patients with least possible delay, hence to avoid expensive and complex PSG procedures. In the third part, authorized physician acquires the information from the server. By using a different range of SRR, OSA events can be examined efficiently and accurately by a concerned surgeon at anytime and anywhere.

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Figure 1: Healthcare System for Tele-Monitoring of OSA.

Experimental Results and Discussion

The two discussed indexes SRR and LHR for analyzing OSA levels are obtained from the time and frequency domains measurement of HRV, respectively. In the frequency domain method, a power spectrum density (PSD) based on FFT estimation is calculated for the RR interval series. Furthermore, the ratio between LF and HF, represented as LHR is utilized as first suggested index to decrease the computational complexity and present one of the competent indexes for spotting OSA levels.

Figure 2 represents RR-intervals for both the short-term and long-term i-e 5 minutes, 1 hour and a whole night of ECG signal. These RR-intervals are further utilized to calculate HRV at different time durations by using both time domain approaches SDNN and RMSSD. However, owing to the ability of long-term recording, these two methods are favored, because, in a real scenario, health monitoring of patients should be observed for a long time (for several hours). The ratio between SDNN and RMSSD (SRR) as shown in equation (5) is used as the second index for diagnosing OSA.

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Figure 2: The inter-pulse (RR) interval representation for 5minutes, 1 hour and whole night of ECG signal.

▪ Comparative analysis of LHR with AHI and RDI

To analyze OSA events on basis of AHI and RDI following conditions to be fulfilled: healthy subject (AHI/RDI) < 5; mild (5 ≤ AHI/RDI ≤ 15, moderate (15<AHI/RDI ≤ 30), and severe (AHI/RDI>30) [31-33]. In this study, Polysomnography (PSG) method is used as a reference to acquiring indexes such as AHI and RDI to signify the occurrence of OSA events. Table 1 states that among the trial group, it is observed that seven subjects have severe OSA (RDI >30). By comparative analysis, it can be examined that for these seven subjects LHR ≥ 1.6. Furthermore, RDI is in between 15 and 30 for four subjects, and RDI varies from 4 to 15 for nine subjects that is a condition for moderate and mild OSA events respectively.

Subjects SRR LHR RDI OSA
1 1.873 2.435 72.9 Severe
2 2.946 1.988 56.4 Severe
3 2.646 1.630 41 Severe
4 2.043 2.903 60.6 Severe
5 2.595 3.277 37.6 Severe
6 1.844 1.059 60.8 Severe
7 2.274 1.578 59.3 Severe
8 1.504 0.990 15.5 Moderate
9 1.755 1.288 20.7 Moderate
10 1.468 0.985 21.4 Moderate
11 1.757 1.281 30 Moderate
12 1.223 0.550 13.6 Mild
13 1.404 0.223 8.8 Mild
14 1.426 0.211 6.6 Mild
15 0.464 0.602 7.4 Mild
16 1.269 0.804 7.5 Mild
17 1.182 0.819 10.7 Mild
18 1.187 0.643 10.1 Mild
19 1.215 0.761 6.3 Mild
20 1.353 0.638 15 Mild

Table 1: SRR, LHR and RDI for 20 subjects (trial experiment).

The LHR for moderate and mild OSA subjects lies in following ranges 0.9<LHR ≥ 1.60 ad 0.2<LHR ≥ 0.8 respectively. Comparative analysis with AHI further verifies this relationship of LHR with different OSA levels during test group examination. It is demonstrated in Table 2, for eleven subjects, AHI is greater than 30, that is a condition for severe OSA. For eight subjects, AHI is in the range of 15-30 (condition for moderate OSA); and for five subjects; AHI lies between 5 to 14 (condition for mild OSA). For LHR, the accuracy between trail group and test group ranges to examine OSA levels is 22/24=0.9166 or 91.66%. In the test group, two subjects (N=5 and N=12) do not obey the ranges as obtained from trail group for LHR index to monitor OSA occurrence.

Subjects SRR LHR AHI OSA
1 1.833 1.920 31.9 Severe
2 2.305 1.651 66.8 Severe
3 2.010 2.777 82 Severe
4 2.072 1.707 69.4 Severe
5 1.826 0.969 35.3 Severe
6 1.897 1.734 49.1 Severe
7 1.891 2.184 59.2 Severe
8 2.029 1.737 43.6 Severe
9 1.850 3.070 68.9 Severe
10 1.847 1.789 44 Severe
11 2.281 1.691 72.8 Severe
12 1.610 0.739 16.5 Moderate
13 1.655 1.405 20.9 Moderate
14 1.537 0.918 15.9 Moderate
15 1.543 1.109 13.7 Moderate
16 1.769 1.278 12.6 Moderate
17 0.993 1.494 18.5 Moderate
18 1.627 1.443 11.7 Moderate
19 1.547 1.075 14.6 Moderate
20 1.207 0.600 11.3 Mild
21 1.0411 0.317 12.9 Mild
22 0.891 0.564 11.5 Mild
23 0.943 0.658 5.5 Mild
24 0.783 0.615 6.3 Mild

Table 2: SRR, LHR, and AHII for 24 subjects (test experiment).

▪ Comparative analysis of SRR with AHI and RDI

This study demonstrates that SRR is observed to be an efficient biometric index to diagnose OSA levels. In trail group, 7, 4 and 9 are severe, moderate and mild OSA patients as shown in Table 3. For these OSA patients by doing a comparative study of SRR with RDI, it is examined that SRR ≥ 1.8, 1.45<SRRR ≥ 1.8 and 0.4<SRRR ≥ 1.45 for severe, moderate and mild respectively (Table 1). This relationship between SRR and OSA events is further checked on test group examination by referencing AHI as a comparison tool between them having an accuracy of 23/24=0.958 or 95.83%. During test group examination (Table 2) only one subject (N=17) do not comply with the ranges as obtained from trail group for SRR.

Parameters Number of patients
  Trail Group Test Group
Severe OSA 7 11
Moderate OSA 4 9
Mild OSA 9 4
Total 20 24

Table 3: Total Number of patients for trail and test experiments.

▪ Correlation of SRR and LHR with AHI and RDI

Although RDI and AHI values have a direct relation with LHR and SRR as observed from comparative analysis, however, they do not have a linear correlation with both of them. Figure 3 represents the correlation of RDI and AHI with SRR and LHR. It has been observed from Figure 3(a) and 3(b) that SRR and LHR have a strong correlation with AHI of (r=0.793) and (r=0.762) respectively. The Figure 3(c) represents that RDI also has good correlation with SRR of (r=0.48). However, no significant correlation (r=0.39) has been observed between RDI and LHR as shown Figure 3(d).

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Figure 3: a) The correlation of AHI with SRR, b) The correlation of AHI with LHR, c) The correlation of RDI with SRR and d) The correlation of RDI with LHR.

▪ Resource utilization and accuracy comparisons

Figure 4 represents that the SRR is the more resource efficient approach for diagnosing OSA levels than LHR and PSG, as the same amount of resources are utilized for more time duration (in hours) using SRR. The PSG is expensive and requires overnight caretaker which consumes some resources. However, frequency-domain based index LHR is resource efficient than PSG but still, demands more resources than time-domain based index SRR. Since the HRV evaluation in the timedomain can reduce computational complexity and save more resources than frequency-domain. Therefore, SRR index has the advantage of resource efficiency over LHR index as well as PSG method.

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Figure 4: Resource Utilization comparison for PSG, LHR, and SHR approaches.

Figure 5 demonstrates that SRR index has high accuracy than all compared methods for examining OSA events. The accuracy of single lead approach [19], TVAM (Time-Varying Autoregressive Model) [20], LHR index, sleepAp [21], and SRR index is 84%, 88%, 91.63%, 92.2% and 95.83% respectively. Due to all these advantages, SRR is more efficient biometric index than LHR and other existing indexes for analyzing OSA events.

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Figure 5: Accuracy comparisons of different approaches for analyzing OSA.

Conclusions

This study presents an efficient biometric index to examine OSA events having applicability in daily life and clinical environment. From experimental results, it can be concluded that SRR and LHR can be more convenient and resource-efficient biometric indexes for diagnosing OSA than existing indexes (RDI and AHI). It is also observed during detailed analysis that LHR has less correlation with RDI and AHI than SRR. Additionally, SRR ensures more accuracy level and resource-efficiency than LHR. Therefore, this study suggests that SRR is an efficient statistical index for remote monitoring of OSA levels.

The future work of this research is to perform an experiment on increased number of patients and also to find the relationship of OSA degree assessment with some other time domain as well as non-linear parameters of HRV.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by the science technology and innovation committee of Shenzhen for research projects (GrantJCYJ20160429174426094, JCYJ20151030151431727, JCYJ20150529164154046, SGLH20150216172854731, and SGLH20150213143207911), Science and the Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province (No.2016A030310129, and 2014A020212257), the Guangzhou Science and Technology Planning Project (No.201704020079), the national Key research and Development Program of China (2016YFC1300300) and the National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 Program) SS2015AA020109.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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