Sleep revolution

Voimassaoloaika: 01.03.2021- 31.08.2025

Projektin status: Käynnissä

Projektissa työskentelevät henkilöt: MD Vesa Uitti, study coordinator Marjo Sunnari

Rahoittajat: EU

Projektin kokonaisrahoitus: 0€ - 50 000€

Projektin ulkoiset kumppanit: Reykjavik University

Tiivistelmä: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with various negative health consequences including increased risk of heartdisease, hypertension and daytime sleepiness causing road accidents. The economic burden of OSA is rising as almost 1billion people worldwide are estimated to have OSA. The current diagnostic metric, however, relates poorly to thesesymptoms and comorbidities. It merely measures the frequency of breathing cessations without assessing OSA severity inany other physiologically relevant way. Furthermore, the clinical methods for analyzing PSG signals are outdated, expensiveand laborious. Due to this, the majority of OSA patients remain without diagnosis or have an inaccurate diagnosis leading tosub-optimal treatment. Thus, it is evident that more personalized diagnostics are required including predictive and preventivehealth care and patient participation.The SLEEP REVOLUTION aims to develop machine learning techniques to better estimate OSA severity and treatmentneeds to improve health outcomes and quality of life. These techniques are implemented to high-end wearables developedin this project to alleviate the costs and increase the availability of PSGs. Finally, we aim to design a digital platform thatfunctions as a bridge between researchers, patients and healthcare professionals.We will achieve these ambitious goals throughout extensive collaboration between sleep specialists, computer scientists andindustry partners. The collaboration network consists of over 30 sleep centers working together to provide the neededretrospective data (over 10.000 sleep studies). The multi-center prospective trials involve experts and end-users to assessand validate the new SLEEP REVOLUTION diagnostic algorithms, wearables and platforms. With the commitment of theEuropean Sleep Research Society and Assembly of National Sleep Societies (over 8000 members), we have the uniquepossibility to create new standardized guidelines for sleep medicine in the EU.