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However, other OSA severity parameters (i.e., total arousal index, mean oxygen saturation (SpO2%), etc.) are crucial for a full diagnosis of OSA and deciding on a treatment option. PSG assessments and home sleep tests measure these parameters, but there is no screening tool to estimate or predict the OSA severity parameters other than the AHI. In this study, we investigated whether a combination of breathing sounds recorded during wakefulness and anthropometric features could be predictive of PSG parameters. Methods: Anthropometric information and five tracheal breathing sound cycles were recorded during wakefulness from 145 individuals referred to an overnight PSG study. The dataset was divided into training, validation, and blind testing datasets. Spectral and bispectral features of the sounds were evaluated to run correlation and classification analyses with the PSG parameters collected from the PSG sleep reports. Results: Many sound and anthropometric features had significant correlations (up to 0.56) with PSG parameters. Using combinations of sound and anthropometric features in a bilinear model for each PSG parameter resulted in correlation coefficients up to 0.84. Using the evaluated models for classification with a two-class random-forest classifier resulted in a blind testing classification accuracy up to 88.8% for predicting the key PSG parameters such as arousal index. Conclusions: These results add new value to the current OSA screening tools and provide a new promising possibility for predicting PSG parameters using only a few seconds of breathing sounds recorded during wakefulness without conducting an overnight PSG study.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diagnostics11050905","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,19]],"date-time":"2021-05-19T12:58:07Z","timestamp":1621429087000},"page":"905","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Predicting Polysomnography Parameters from Anthropometric Features and Breathing Sounds Recorded during Wakefulness"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0254-1022","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ahmed","family":"Elwali","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V6, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zahra","family":"Moussavi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V6, Canada"},{"name":"Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V6, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"American Academy of Sleep Medicine (2005). 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