Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia that involves involuntary, unwanted, and random movements of a dreaming patient. Typically, these dreams contain violent activities. There is a high likelihood of the patient being injured or hurting his bed-partner as a result of these enactments. Continuous monitoring of sleeping RBD patients can prevent these harmful events through timely intervention. This paper presents a novel method for continuous observation of RBD patients exploiting fine-grained amplitude and phase information of the wireless channel response. The variations in the wireless channel response as a result of different patient movements are assessed and used to identify RBD episodes. The data obtained are classified using a support vector machine and deliver an accuracy level of more than 90%. To the best of authors' knowledge, this is a first attempt at using radio frequency signals to sense RBD in real time.
%0 Journal Article
%1 8338401
%A Yang, X.
%A Shah, S. A.
%A Ren, A.
%A Zhao, N.
%A Zhao, J.
%A Hu, F.
%A Zhang, Z.
%A Zhao, W.
%A Rehman, M. U.
%A Alomainy, A.
%D 2018
%J IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology
%K Behavior Disorder From Monitoring Patients REM Sleep Suffering of
%N 2
%P 138-143
%R 10.1109/JERM.2018.2827705
%T Monitoring of Patients Suffering From REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
%U https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8338401/
%V 2
%X Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia that involves involuntary, unwanted, and random movements of a dreaming patient. Typically, these dreams contain violent activities. There is a high likelihood of the patient being injured or hurting his bed-partner as a result of these enactments. Continuous monitoring of sleeping RBD patients can prevent these harmful events through timely intervention. This paper presents a novel method for continuous observation of RBD patients exploiting fine-grained amplitude and phase information of the wireless channel response. The variations in the wireless channel response as a result of different patient movements are assessed and used to identify RBD episodes. The data obtained are classified using a support vector machine and deliver an accuracy level of more than 90%. To the best of authors' knowledge, this is a first attempt at using radio frequency signals to sense RBD in real time.
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abstract = {Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia that involves involuntary, unwanted, and random movements of a dreaming patient. Typically, these dreams contain violent activities. There is a high likelihood of the patient being injured or hurting his bed-partner as a result of these enactments. Continuous monitoring of sleeping RBD patients can prevent these harmful events through timely intervention. This paper presents a novel method for continuous observation of RBD patients exploiting fine-grained amplitude and phase information of the wireless channel response. The variations in the wireless channel response as a result of different patient movements are assessed and used to identify RBD episodes. The data obtained are classified using a support vector machine and deliver an accuracy level of more than 90%. To the best of authors' knowledge, this is a first attempt at using radio frequency signals to sense RBD in real time.},
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author = {{Yang}, X. and {Shah}, S. A. and {Ren}, A. and {Zhao}, N. and {Zhao}, J. and {Hu}, F. and {Zhang}, Z. and {Zhao}, W. and {Rehman}, M. U. and {Alomainy}, A.},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d5139c67fbaee0015dd721ee44c80048/azizshahics},
doi = {10.1109/JERM.2018.2827705},
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issn = {2469-7257},
journal = {IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology},
keywords = {Behavior Disorder From Monitoring Patients REM Sleep Suffering of},
month = {June},
number = 2,
pages = {138-143},
timestamp = {2021-04-07T00:37:13.000+0200},
title = {Monitoring of Patients Suffering From REM Sleep Behavior Disorder},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8338401/},
volume = 2,
year = 2018
}