Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sleep Apnea: Filling the Gap Between Physicians and Engineers

Thomas Penzel is a Professor and Doctor at the Sleep Medicine Center at Charite Universitätsmedizin in Berlin, Germany. His work is devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disordered breathing.

Roberto Hornero is a Professor in the Department of Signal Processing and Communications at the University of Valladolid, in Valladolid, Spain, and Director of the Biomedical Engineering Group at the University of Valladolid. He is a member of the Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN, Ministry of Health, Spain). His work is devoted to analyzing pulse oximetry and overnight polysomnography signals to help in the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea.