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Speciality Spotlight
Obstructive Apnea
- El-Solh AA, Mador J, et al (State Univ of New York, Buffalo; Buffalo Gen Hosp, NY; Dept of Veterans Affairs Med Ctr, Buffalo, NY)
Validity of Neural Network in Sleep Apnea
Sleep 22: 105-111, 1999
The standard test for assessing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is overnight polysomnography, which is expensive and time consuming.
For rapid diagnostic tool for OSA, Artifical Neural Network (ANN) was created and validated. However, large, prospective, multicentric trial is required to further validate the performance of this predictive ANN for OSA.