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In this study, we analyzed 30-s brain activity segments during continuous and ending apnea events to identify neurophysiological markers of event termination, with particular emphasis on the most influential EEG features. Frequency-domain and complexity features were extracted, and several ensemble machine learning models were trained and evaluated. Our results show that the Extra Trees model achieved the highest performance, with an accuracy of 0.88, F1-score for ending apnea of 0.87, and an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.95. Feature importance analyses and SHAP visualizations highlighted frequency-band energy, Teager\u2013Kaiser energy, and signal complexity as key contributors. Temporal analyses revealed how these features evolve during apnea termination. 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