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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2012
Applicant:
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CA;
Inventors:
Zahra Moussavi, Winnipeg, CA;
Davood Karimi, Winnipeg, CA;
Assignee:
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0826 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention relates to a system and method for screening a patient for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) using recordings of tracheal breathing sounds of both nose and mouth breathing in the upright and supine positions to compute characteristic features of the patient, the characteristic features being compared to the mean values of similar features of OSA and non-OSA training groups to classify a patient as OSA or non-OSA.