SAS Mobile Application for Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Utilizing Machine Learning Models

In this paper, we provide a consistent, inexpensive, and easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) smart phone application named Sleep Apnea Screener (SAS) that can diagnosis Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) based on demographic data such as: gender, age, height, BMI, neck circumference, waist, etc., allowing a tentative diagnosis of OSA without the need for overnight tests. The developed smart phone application can diagnosis sleep apnea using a model trained with 620 samples collected from a sleep center in Corpus Christi, TX. Two machine learning classifiers (i.e., Logistic Regression (LR) and Support Vector Machine (SVM)) were used to diagnosis OSA. Our preliminary results show that at-home OSA screening is indeed possible, and that our application is effective method for covering large numbers of undiagnosed cases.