“…Xie et al [10] utilized a combination of classifiers to achieve realtime detection of SAHS based on ECG and SpO 2 . All the above studies can be roughly divided into two categories: those that predict the AH index (AHI) based on the detection of AH events [2,3,5,7,[9][10][11], and those that predict AHI based on the overall signal features [1,4,6,8,12,13]. The latter approach cannot provide time information for each AH event, whereas most studies in the former [2,7,10,11] only involve a 60-s segment identification which may not be accurate for predicting the segments containing multiple AH events and may lead to errors in the estimation of AHI.…”