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Identification of Obstructive Apnea Signatures Result in Phenotypes with Distinct Biometric Differences

2025· article· W4416637861 on OpenAlexaff
Hamed Hanafi, Matthew Hickey, Kazi Antor Hasan, Scott Lowe, Maryam Elsankary, Ingo Fietze, Thomas Penzel, Reena Mehra, Sanja Jelić, Yüksel Peker, Debra Morrison

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldMedicine
TopicObstructive Sleep Apnea Research
Canadian institutionsNSCAD UniversityDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsObstructive sleep apneaPhenotypeBiometricsAirwayIdentification (biology)Sleep apnea

Abstract

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Positive airway pressure (PAP) is the gold-standard treatment for patients diagnosed with Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We believe personalized treatment may be possible by developing algorithms which have been tuned to specific patient phenotypes. Therefore, it was our objective to investigate if specific airflow-based patient phenotypes existed in patients diagnosed with OSA. Using an apnea-centered analysis, we developed frequency-based representations of the OSA events for 102 patients. We then developed distinct patient phenotypes using projection pursuit analysis while comparing biometric and treatment variables measured by PAP machine or SleepImage RingTM between phenotypes (ANOVA & post-hoc t-test). We identified four clusters associated with patient Obstructive Apnea Signatures (Fig.1). Phenotypes 1 and 3 were both characterized by lower obstructive-apnea-index compared to 2 and 4 (p<0.05). However, Phenotypes 1 and 2 were characterized by higher sleep quality index, stability, and lower fragmentation (scored by SleepImage RingTM) compared to 3 and 4 (p<0.05). Our results demonstrate the utility of Obstructive Apnea Signatures and the existence of specific signature-based phenotypes. We believe this marks the beginning of personalized PAP therapy, where treatment is tailored to the unique airflow signatures and the specific needs of different patient phenotypes. erj;66/suppl_69/PA3205/F1 F1 F1

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.021

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.300
Teacher spread0.285 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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