RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Assessment of airflow and oximetry signals to detect pediatric sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome using AdaBoost A1 Jiménez García, Jorge A1 Gutiérrez Tobal, Gonzalo César A1 García Gadañón, María A1 Kheirandish Gozal, Leila A1 Martín Montero, Adrián A1 Álvarez, Daniel A1 Campo Matias, Félix del A1 Gozal, David A1 Hornero Sánchez, Roberto K1 Pediatría K1 Pneumology/Respiratory System K1 Sleep apnea–hypopnea syndrome K1 Oximetry K1 AdaBoost K1 Airflow K1 Síndrome de apnea-hipopnea del sueño K1 Oximetría K1 Flujo de aire K1 32 Ciencias Médicas AB The reference standard to diagnose pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) syndrome is an overnight polysomnographic evaluation. When polysomnography is either unavailable or has limited availability, OSA screening may comprise the automatic analysis of a minimum number of signals. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the complementarity of airflow (AF) and oximetry (SpO2) signals to automatically detect pediatric OSA. Additionally, a secondary goal was to assess the utility of a multiclass AdaBoost classifier to predict OSA severity in children. We extracted the same features from AF and SpO2 signals from 974 pediatric subjects. We also obtained the 3% Oxygen Desaturation Index (ODI) as a common clinically used variable. Then, feature selection was conducted using the Fast Correlation-Based Filter method and AdaBoost classifiers were evaluated. Models combining ODI 3% and AF features outperformed the diagnostic performance of each signal alone, reaching 0.39 Cohens’s kappa in the four-class classification task. OSA vs. No OSA accuracies reached 81.28%, 82.05% and 90.26% in the apnea–hypopnea index cutoffs 1, 5 and 10 events/h, respectively. The most relevant information from SpO2 was redundant with ODI 3%, and AF was complementary to them. Thus, the joint analysis of AF and SpO2 enhanced the diagnostic performance of each signal alone using AdaBoost, thereby enabling a potential screening alternative for OSA in children. PB MDPI YR 2020 FD 2020 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58999 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58999 LA eng NO Entropy, 2020, vol. 22, n. 6, 670 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 23-nov-2024