L.N. Anishchenko1, V.S. Lobanova2, I.A. Davydova3, E.A. Ivanisova4, L.S. Korostovtseva5, M.V. Bochkarev6, Yu.V. Sviryaev7, A.S. Bugaev8

1 Research and Practical Clinical Center of Diagnostics and Telemedicine Technologies,    Department of Health Care of Moscow

1–4 Bauman Moscow State Technical University (Moscow, Russia)

2Almazov National Medical Research Centre (St.-Petersburg, Russia)

3 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russia)

Good sleep is vital for a physical and psychological health and well-being. However, the ever-increasing levels of everyday stress and the speed of life lead to permanent sleep deprivation and a decrease in sleep quality. Currently, in clinical practice, the method of polysomnography is used to detect sleep disorders. This method is expensive, labor and time-consuming, as well as uncomfortable for the patient. Therefore, at present, the problem of creating accurate, reliable and comfortable for the patients methods for assessing the sleep quality, as well as identifying and monitoring various sleep disorders, remains an up-to-date task of modern biomedical engineering. One of these methods is bioradiolocation, which allows detecting sleep disorders based on the variability of the breathing pattern of a sleeping person. However, because the amplitude of chest movements during breathing in different directions differs by an order of magnitude, the quality of the signal received by the bioradar during sleep also varies depending on the orientation of the sleeping person relative to the bioradar. To overcome this problem, in this article we propose a combined use of two bioradars oriented at different angles towards to the sleeping person.

Thus, the aim of this work was to develop a bioradar system that provides reliable registration of the breathing pattern for various positions of a sleeping person.

During the experiments, we used two monochromatic bioradars "BioRASCAN-24" with probing frequencies in the range of 24.0 and 24.1 GHz, located at an angle of 90 ° to each other. In this work, we used bioradar data recorded for seven volunteers who underwent polysomnographic research at the sleep laboratory of Almazov National Medical Research Centre. During the night, a parallel recording of bioradar signals and polysomnographic data was carried out for each subject using the Embla N7000 system (Natus Neurology Inc., USA). The duration of the experimental recording for each subject was from 7 to 9 hours.

An algorithm was developed to extract a breathing pattern from a bioradar signal and estimate the respiratory rate of a sleeping person. It consisted of the following stages: synchronization of the bioradar and polysomnographic signals, demodulation, exclusion from consideration of signal fragments containing motion artifacts, signal filtering in order to isolate the breathing pattern, assessment of respiration rate in the inter-artifact periods for each of the bioradars separately, the final estimation of the respiration rate for the inter-artifact periods, taking into account the combination of data for both radars. Bioradar signal processing algorithms were done utilizing Matlab 2020b.

To assess the accuracy of the proposed algorithm, we compared the respiratory rates calculated for each 30-second epoch using bioradar data with similar parameters calculated by the abdominal belt polysomnography sensor. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm was estimated by the accuracy and the mean absolute error. The results obtained for seven volunteers showed that the developed two-channel bioradar system turned out to be more accurate and reliable than a single bioradar.

In the course of further research, it is planned to expand the dataset to include data from volunteers not only with sleep-related breathing disorders, but also with other sleep disorders. Although this work was carried out with the involvement of only seven volunteers, it is nevertheless an important step towards the development of a reliable view-independent bioradar system for assessing breathing rate during sleep.

Anishchenko L.N., Lobanova V.S., Davydova I.A., Ivanisova E.A., Korostovtseva L.S., Bochkarev M.V., Sviryaev Yu.V., Bugaev A.S. Human respiratory monitoring during sleep using a two-channel bioradar. Biomedicine Radioengineering. 2021. V. 24. № 5. P. 47–58. DOI: 10.18127/j15604136-202105-06 (in Russian)

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