Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0773687

Funded Activity Summary

Non-contact Instrumentation for the Home Monitoring of Upper Airway Obstructions in Sleep. Over 800,000 Australians suffer from obstructive sleep apnoea costing billions of dollars annually to the nation. Obstructive sleep apnoea patients use twice the health resources compared to a normal person, and 7 times more likely to cause traffic accidents. In NSW alone up to 43000 accidents per year are due to obstructive sleep apnoea. Obstructive sleep apnoea is treatable and thus consequences such as stroke and heart attacks are preventable. At present over 90% patients remain undiagnosed. Current diagnosis is expensive and requires hospitalization; no acceptable mass screening device exists. This project proposes an enabling technology for the population screening of obstructive sleep apnoea based on analysing snoring sounds. Outcomes of the project have the potential to revolutionize the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnoea.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 11-07-2007

End Date: 31-07-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $131,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Signal Processing | Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Biomedical Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified | Speech Recognition

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Medical instrumentation | Diagnostic methods | Computer hardware and electronic equipment not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Biomedical Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified | Computer hardware and electronic equipment not elsewhere classified | Diagnostic methods | Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Medical instrumentation | Signal Processing | Speech Recognition

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