Sleep Apnea Detection

Objective

Developing a 100% non intrusive method for detecting sleep apnea in infants.

Approach

A video feed is processed to detect the breathing pattern and then it is assessed for anomalies.

Algorithms

Canny edge detection, Center of graviry tracking, subspace filtering, adaptive filtering, maxima detection.

Hardware

Raspberry pi model 3 b Raspberry pi camera

Software

Python3, OpenCV

People

Gihan Jayatilaka , Harshana Weligampola , Suren Sritharan and Pankayaraj Pathmanathan developed this system as a course project for CO321 CO323 CO325. The project was supervised by Dr. Roshan Ragel and Dr.Isuru Nawinne . The embedded system was developed by Nuwan Jaliyagoda and Anupamali Willamuna.

Acknowledgements

Sanjaya Herath provided the hardware components. Dinidu Bhathiya provided a dataset.

For someone who wants to build up on this project

Please drop an email to [email protected] or anyone mentioned in people section to obtain datasets or clarify technical details.

Future work (ideas)

1. Identifying deafness in infants through behavioural analytics
2. Identify risky behaviour of the baby (trying to climb out of the cot)