journal article·2025-12-10Open access

Deep Model Based on Mamba Fusion Multi-Scale Convolution LSTM for OSA Severity Grading

Changyun Li, Shengwen He, Xi Xu, Zhibing Wang

Applied Sciences· Volume 15· Issue 24

Abstract

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) affects nearly one billion individuals worldwide, and its rising prevalence exacerbates cardiovascular and metabolic burdens. Although overnight polysomnography (PSG) is the diagnosis gold standard, its cost and procedural complexity constrain population-level deployment. To address this gap, an end-to-end model is developed. It operates directly on full-night peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) sequences sampled at 1 Hz. The model integrates multi-scale convolution, state space modeling, and channel-wise attention to classify obstructive sleep apnea severity into four levels. Evaluated on the Sleep Heart Health Study cohorts, the approach achieved overall accuracies of 80.51% on SHHS1 and 76.61% on SHHS2, with mean specificity exceeding 92%. These results suggest that a single-channel SpO2 signal is sufficient for four-class OSA classification without extensive preprocessing or additional PSG channels. This approach may enable low-cost, large-scale home screening and provide a basis for future multimodal, real-time monitoring.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research · EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces · Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring

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Affiliations

School of Computer Science, Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou 412007, China

School of Information and Intelligent Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China

Hunan Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Perception and Processing Technology, Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou 412000, China

Funding

Hunan Provincial Innovation Foundation for Postgraduate

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