Snoring, which may be decisive for many diseases, is an important indicator especially for sleep disorders. In recent years, many studies have been performed on the snore related sounds (SRSs) due to producing useful results for detection of sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (SAHS). The first important step of these studies is the detection of snore from SRSs by using different time and frequency domain features. The SRSs have a complex nature that is originated from several physiological and physical conditions. The nonlinear characteristics of SRSs can be examined with chaos theory methods which are widely used to evaluate the biomedical signals and systems, recently. The aim of this study is to classify the SRSs as snore/breathing/silence by using the largest Lyapunov exponent (LLE) and entropy with multiclass support vector machines (SVMs) and adaptive network fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). Two different experiments were performed for different training and test data sets. Experimental results show that the multiclass SVMs can produce the better classification results than ANFIS with used nonlinear quantities. Additionally, these nonlinear features are carrying meaningful information for classifying SRSs and are able to be used for diagnosis of sleep disorders such as SAHS.

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Obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea (OSAH) is a highly prevalent disease which causes collapse in upper airway while sleeping. The purpose of this study is to classify snore related sounds into snore/non-snore episodes using adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). Time-domain features which are entropy, energy and zero crossing rates were used and applied to data for ANFIS classifier model. At first, apnea and normal snore related sounds obtained from different patients are segmented. After segmentation, energy, entropy and zero crossing rates are calculated. Unlike the previous studies, entropy information was firstly used for snoring classification. Then, ANFIS was used to classify episodes as snore/non-snore. Experimental results have shown that ANFIS is able to classify snore segments with accuracy rate 97.08%. In conclusion, the results prove that ANFIS has good performance for classifying snore related sounds.

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