Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0990169

Funded Activity Summary

Tooth-mic Devices for Monitoring the Efficacy of Home-based Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) Technology. Over 800,000 Australians suffer from Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). OSA patients use twice the health resources compared to healthy people. They are 7 times more likely to cause traffic accidents; in NSW up to 43000 accidents/year are due to OSA. OSA is treatable & consequences such as strokes, diabetes & heart attacks are preventable. The standard OSA treatment is home-based Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Therapy. Unfortunately, no effective technique exists to measure the efficacy of the treatment. We propose enabling solutions to this problem via developing technology centered on breathing sound analysis. The project proposes joint work with a US-company facilitating access to advanced technology highly beneficial to Australia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2009

End Date: 30-06-2013

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $220,000.00

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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