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a future where those students with the most potential to innovate will inno- el agreement with the gold-stan-
vate in the US”. dard polysomnography without the
Thanedar acknowledged the troubles associated with acquiring the H1-B need for expensive and cumber-
visa post-graduation. “Deadlines dictating a student’s stay in the country is some equipment and a clinician
troublesome, that is precisely why I’m proposing a revision with respect to to score the test,” reports Sheth in
extensions,” he said. Computers in Biology and Medi-
Thanedar said he believes every student deserves considerable time to cine. “This advancement challeng-
find employment and determine which workspace works best for them. es the traditional reliance on elec-
“This bill is just one of many that I support because they bring us closer to troencephalography (or EEG) for
a more equitable world while creating a more robust economy to the benefit reliable sleep staging and paves the
of Americans and Michiganders,” he said. way for more accessible, cost-effec-
tive sleep studies.”
BHAVIN SHETH to high-quality sleep analysis outside
This technique can enable access
Professor develops testing clinical settings, Bhavin’s research
holds the potential to expand the reach of sleep medicine significantly. Re-
procedure for cost-effective sleep liable classification of sleep stages is crucial in sleep medicine and neurosci-
ence research for providing valuable insights, diagnoses and understanding of
studies brain states.
The electrocardiography-based model was trained on 4000 recordings
from subjects 5–90 years old. They showed that the model is robust and per-
niversity of Houston, associate professor of electrical and computer forms just as well as a clinician scoring polysomnography.
engineering Bhavin R. Sheth and former student Adam Jones, have “Our method significantly outperforms current research and commercial
Uintroduced a groundbreaking approach to sleep stage classification devices that do not use EEG and achieve gold-standard levels of agreement
that could replace the current gold standard in sleep testing, the cumbersome using only a single lead of electrocardiography data,” said Sheth, who is also
polysomnography, which uses a myriad of wires and is performed in a clinic. a member of the UH Center for NeuroEngineering and Cognitive Systems.
Their new procedure, which can be performed at home by the user, uses
a single-lead electrocardiography-based deep learning neural network, ensur-
ing that there are no more wires all over your body. The new technique uses To read more about Indian diaspora and Global Indians, log on to and follow
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