OBJECTIVE To track the development of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) as well as dento-facial morphology in cohort of children by having them complete a questionnaire at ages 4, 6 and 12. Clinical examination, sleep studies (at ages 4 and 12) and orthodontic evaluation were carried out on all who were reported to snore regularly and children who did not snore at all. RESULTS Out of the origi...

Whilst snoring itself is usually not harmful to a person’s health, it can be an indication of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA), a serious sleep-related disorder. As a result, studies into using snoring as acoustic based marker of OSA are gaining in popularity. Motivated by this, the INTERSPEECH 2017 ComParE Snoring sub-challenge requires classification from which areas in the upper airways differ...

In this paper, we propose a method for automatically detecting various types of snore sounds using image classification convolutional neural network (CNN) descriptors extracted from audio file spectrograms. The descriptors, denoted as deep spectrum features, are derived from forwarding spectrograms through very deep task-independent pre-trained CNNs. Specifically, activations of fully connected...

STUDY OBJECTIVE It has been suggested that habitual snoring (HS) has adverse health outcomes in children. We aimed to identify risk factors for HS and determine its natural history in primary school children. DESIGN Cross-sectional, population-based cohort study. SETTING Twenty-seven primary schools located within the city limits of Hannover, Germany. PARTICIPANTS Third-grade primary scho...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine whether risks of impaired cognitive function could be predicted for children or groups of children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy who were suspected of having obstructive sleep-disordered breathing, from historical and polysomnographic variables used separately or in combination. METHODS We studied 114 consecutive 6- to 12-year-old childre...

A 2011 study at one U.S. dental school found that patients were not routinely screened by dental students for obstructive sleep apnea and/or other related sleep disorders, nor were students being trained to screen. Consequently, the medical history questionnaire used in the clinic was updated to include five specific screening questions. The aim of this two-year follow-up study was to determine...