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Training and validation utilized accelerometer data from 413 participants across two centers, recorded during diagnostic overnight polysomnography (PSG), in absence of any therapy. The dataset was split equally: half was used to train the neural network, and the remaining half to evaluate its performance. This evaluation compared the accelerometry-derived overnight AHI against the reference from PSG, both overall and separately for supine and non-supine sleeping positions.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Sleep staging reached substantial agreement with polysomnography, achieving a Cohen's kappa coefficient of agreement of 0.67 for four-class sleep staging (Wake\/REM\/N1-N2\/N3). AHI was estimated with highly reliable, showing an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.90 (95% CI: 0.86\u20130.92) when compared to polysomnography-derived values. Performances were consistent in both supine and non-supine sleeping positions. Positive likelihood ratios were high (7.1, 16.0, and 165.7 for the mild, moderate, and severe OSA severity classes, using near-boundary double labeling). Negative likelihood ratios were low (0.095, 0.153, and 0.069 for the same cases).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>AHI can be reliably estimated using chest-wall accelerometry. 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