Currently,monitoring and diagnostics on obstructive sleep apnea(OSA) are usually conducted in a hospital due to their operational complexity.However,with the increasing acquaintances on the disease among patients,the huge number of hospitalization causes an ever heavy burden on medical institutions.To simplify the operation and achieve daily check for OSA patients,here we described a sleep monitoring and assessment strategy based on mobile phone.The software thus developed under Visual Studion 2008 environment allows to acquire snoring signal,process the data via computer and thus interpret and diagnose the patient’s health status.Through simulated experiment,it was demonstrated that the mobile phone based sleep monitoring method was a promising way to diagnose accurately on abnormal snoring signal.This study provides a significant and realistic technical approach for family use low cost OSA diagnostics.
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