Snore Wars: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Using Polysomnography
摘要
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) affects over a billion people globally yet remains underdiagnosed, posing significant health and safety risks. Polysomnography (PSG), the diagnostic gold standard, captures EEG, ECG, airflow, and oxygen saturation—but manual scoring is time-consuming and variable. To review recent artificial intelligence (AI) advances—including machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL)—for automated sleep staging, OSA detection, and candidate screening in safety-critical industries, we performed a narrative review of studies (2015–2025) applying AI to PSG data, wearable sensors, electronic health records, and patient-reported outcomes. Convolutional neural networks, recurrent models (LSTM/RNN), and hybrid architectures now automate sleep staging and apnoeic-event detection with Cohen’s κ >0.80 and accuracies >95%. Explainable AI tools (LIME, hypnodensity modeling) enhance transparency and clinician trust. Wearable integrations and cloud-based platforms extend diagnostics beyond sleep labs. In aviation, transportation, and military settings, AI-driven screening facilitates early identification of sleep disorders and fatigue risk. Key challenges remain—data privacy, algorithmic bias, and regulatory validation—but federated learning, inclusive global datasets, and precision sleep medicine frameworks offer a path forward. The ethical and transparent deployment of AI-driven PSG can improve diagnostic access, enable personalized therapy, and advance global sleep health equity.