Role of automated detection of respiratory related heart rate changes in the diagnosis of sleep disordered breathing
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Abstract
Study objectives: The objective of this study was to determine whether electrocardiogram (ECG) and heart rate accelerations that occur in the vicinity of respiratory events could predict the severity of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). Methods: De-identified polysomnogram (NPSG) recordings from 2091 eligible participants in the Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS) were evaluated after developing and validating an automated algorithm using an initial set of recordings from 1,438 participants to detect RR interval (RRI) dips in ECG and heart rate accelerations from pulse rate signal. Within-subject comparisons were made between the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) and both the total RRI dip index (total RRDI) and total heart rate acceleration index (total HRAI). Results: < 0.05). Respiratory-related HRAI had a strong agreement with NPSG AHI (intraclass correlation coefficient-ICC: 0.64, whereas respiratory-related RRDI displayed weaker agreement and ICC: 0.38). Further assessment of respiratory-related HRAI (≥5 events/h) showed a strong diagnostic ability (78, 87, 81, and 56% agreement for traditional AHI cutoffs 5, 10, 15, and 30 events/h, respectively). At the AHI cutoff of 5 events/h the receiver operating curves (ROC) revealed an area under the curve (AUCs) of 0.90 and 0.96 for RE RRDI and RE HRAI respectively. Conclusion: The automated respiratory-related heart rate measurements derived from pulse rate provide an accurate method to detect the presence of SDB. Therefore, the ability of mathematical models to accurately detect respiratory-related heart rate changes from pulse rate may enable an additional method to diagnose SDB.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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