title: Contactless method for detection of infant sleep apnoea.
abstract: This paper presents a contactless method for monitoring infant sleep apnoea. The method uses a remote infrared (IR) sensor to monitor the motion of the infant's abdomen. This method has important clinical advantages in comparison with conventional methods. First, it improves the comfort and compliance of the infants. Second, it eliminates the effects of motion artefacts and skin irritation. Third, it enhances infant safety. Fourth, it does not require frequent calibration and thus enables a continuous monitoring of sleep apnoea. Finally, it is suitable for home applications. Experimental evaluation of this method showed that it has 85% accuracy, 85.71% specificity and 84.62% sensitivity, which imply that it is a promising technique for the detection of infant sleep apnoea.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, PO Box 3030, 22110 Irbid, Jordan. mashamer@gmail.com
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Bani Amer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Az-Zaqah
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Aldofash
authors.forename: A Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Mohammad
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Dameer
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007259:Infrared Rays; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology