A COMPLETE SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF SLEEP DATA

该项目将开发一个计算机系统， 分析睡眠数据，包括EEG、EOG、EMG和呼吸 信号. 该系统将包括数据库管理系统 用于维护已处理记录的库， 选择按特定参数排序的记录 例如年龄。 这项工作将结合最近的进展， 人工智能在专家系统设计中的应用。 的 系统将包括允许用户 以人类语言的形式与计算机交流。 多 的知识和专业知识所需的运作， 自动睡眠分析系统将被编程到 电脑 该系统还将作为储存库， 许多睡眠专家积累的知识。 计算机 将使人们能够获得睡眠的更详细的描述， 比目前使用视觉评分获得的过程，它将 提供可供所有实验室共享的客观数据。 在 此外，该系统将提供客观数据， 所有实验室共享。 此外，该系统还将提供 用于为大型对象提供睡眠分析的经济方法 人口 该系统将通过睡眠记录进行评估， 磁带，这已被三个独立的手评分 laboratories. 除EEG/EOG/EMG数据外，系统还将 分析呼吸模式、氧饱和度、心率 和腿部肌阵挛 这项研究将有助于建立 睡眠诊断和治疗的客观标准 紊乱 所得到的系统可以提供一种方法， 睡眠研究容易且经济地适用于广泛的主题 人口

This project will develop a computer system for the automated analysis of sleep data including EEG, EOG, EMG, and respiration signals. The system will include a data base management system for maintaining a library of processed records from which one can select records sorted for a particular parameter or parameters such as age. The work will incorporate recent advances in Artificial Intelligence on the design of Expert Systems. The system will include software which allows the user to communicate with the computer in human language form. Much of the knowledge and expertise required for the operation of automated sleep analysis systems will be programmed into the computer. The system will also serve as a repository for knowledge accumulated by many sleep specialists. The computer will enable one to obtain a more detailed description of the sleep process than is currently obtained using visual scoring, and it will provide objective data which can be shared by all laboratories. In addition, the system will provide objective data which can be shared by all laboratories. In addition, the system will provide an economical method for providing sleep analysis to a large subject population. The system is to be evaluated with sleep records, a magnetic tape, which has been hand scored by three independent laboratories. In addition to EEG/EOG/EMG data the system will analyze respiration patterns, oxygen saturation levels, heart rate and leg myoclonus. The study will assist the establishment of objective criteria for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. The resulting system can provide a method for making sleep studies easily and economically available to a broad subject population.