title: Sleep assessment using a passive ballistocardiography-based system: preliminary validation.
abstract: Quantitative sleep analysis through the use of polysomnography is a well established standard. Finding new ways to approach this, especially over multiple nights, is becoming more important due to a growing recognition of adverse effects from poor sleep and sleep disorders. The Non-Invasive Analysis of Physiological Signals (NAPS) system is a ballistocardiography-based monitoring system developed to measure heart rate, breathing rate and musculoskeletal movement that shows promise as a general sleep analysis tool. Overnight sleep studies were conducted on 20 healthy subjects during a validation clinical trial which compared the NAPS system to actigraphy, using polysomnography as the gold standard. The NAPS system [kappa=0.478; 95% CI (0.463, 0.494); p-value<0.001] outperformed actigraphy [kappa=0.344; 95% CI (0.324, 0.358); p-value<0.001], largely due to better performance in distinguishing sleep onset times as determined by polysomnography [NAPS mean bias estimate: -2.5 epochs; 95% CI (-16.8, 11.9); p=0.725|Actigraphy mean bias estimate: -33.6 epochs; 95% CI (-57.4, -9.7); p=0.016)].
authors: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA. dmack@wellawaresystems.com
authors: David C
authors: DC
authors: Mack
authors: James T
authors: JT
authors: Patrie
authors: Robin A
authors: RA
authors: Felder
authors: Paul M
authors: PM
authors: Suratt
authors: Majd
authors: M
authors: Alwan
mesh_terms: D056044:Actigraphy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D000328:Adult; D001450:Ballistocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017286:Polysomnography / Q000295:instrumentation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012119:Respiration; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology; D014851:Wakefulness / Q000502:physiology