All Stories

  1. Detection and analysis of pulse waves during sleep via wrist-worn actigraphy

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2019, PLOS

    Dr Thomas Penzel, jan Kantelhardt

  2. Network physiology in insomnia patients: Assessment of relevant changes in network topology with interpretable machine learning models

    Article • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, December 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  3. Contactless recording of sleep apnea and periodic leg movements by nocturnal 3-D-video and subsequent visual perceptive computing

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  4. Sleep quality of subjects with and without sleep-disordered breathing based on the cyclic alternating pattern rate estimation from single-lead ECG

    Article • Physiological Measurement, November 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Thomas Penzel, Dr. Sheikh Shanawaz Mostafa

  5. A comparison between auto-scored apnea-hypopnea index and oxygen desaturation index in the characterization of positional obstructive sleep apnea

    Article • Nature and Science of Sleep, July 2019, Dove Medical Press

    President and Co-founder Daniel Jerome Levendowski, Erik St Louis, Dr Thomas Penzel

  6. Nocturnal ventricular repolarization lability predicts cardiovascular mortality in the Sleep Heart Health Study

    Article • AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology, March 2019, American Physiological Society

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  7. A Review of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection Approaches

    Article • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, March 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Thomas Penzel, Dr. Sheikh Shanawaz Mostafa

  8. Automatic sleep stages classification using respiratory, heart rate and movement signals

    Article • Physiological Measurement, December 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Thomas Penzel, Prof. Juan A. Ortega

  9. Time domain characterization for sleep apnea in oronasal airflow signal: a dynamic threshold classification approach

    Article • Physiological Measurement, November 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  10. Continuous non-invasive determination of the nocturnal blood pressure variation using photoplethysmographic pulse wave signals - comparison of pulse propagation time, pulse transit time and RR-interval

    Article • Physiological Measurement, November 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  11. Feature relevance in physiological networks for classification of obstructive sleep apnea

    Article • Physiological Measurement, November 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  12. The effect of cranial electrotherapy stimulation on sleep in healthy women

    Article • Physiological Measurement, October 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  13. Is dynamic desaturation better than a static index to quantify the mortality risk in heart failure patients with Cheyne-Stokes respiration?

    Article • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, October 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  14. The first night effect in multiple sclerosis patients undergoing home-based polysomnography

    Article • Nature and Science of Sleep, October 2018, Dove Medical Press

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  15. Electroencephalography as a predictor of self-report fatigue/sleepiness during monotonous driving in train drivers

    Article • Physiological Measurement, September 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  16. Opportunities for utilizing polysomnography signals to personalize obstructive sleep apnea subtypes and severity

    Article • Physiological Measurement, July 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  17. New technology to assess sleep apnea: wearables, smartphones, and accessories

    Article • F1000Research, March 2018, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  18. Telemedicinefor sleep medicine in terms of diagnosis, treatment control and smartphone applications

    Article • Somnologie - Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  19. Sensor-Mesh-Based System with Application on Sleep Study

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Penzel, Prof. Juan A. Ortega

  20. Sleep spindle detection using multivariate Gaussian mixture models

    Article • Journal of Sleep Research, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  21. REM Sleep Imposes a Vascular Load in COPD Patients Independent of Sleep Apnea

    Article • COPD Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Thomas Penzel, Ludger Grote

  22. On the difference of cardiorespiratory synchronisation and coordination

    Article • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, September 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  23. Impact of aircraft noise on sleep

    Article • Somnologie - Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  24. Session 62. New techniques in biosignal analysis for detecting sleep-related respiratory disorders

    Article • Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  25. Healthy and disturbed sleep: from the laboratory to actigraphy

    Article • March 2016, PeerJ

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  26. Healthy and disturbed sleep: from the laboratory to actigraphy

    Article • March 2016, PeerJ

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  27. Alpha-wave frequency characteristics in health and insomnia during sleep

    Article • Journal of Sleep Research, January 2016, Wiley

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  28. Möglichkeiten der automatischen Schlafstadienklassifikation und ihre Grenzen

    Article • Klinische Neurophysiologie, August 2015, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  29. Actigraphy combined with EEG compared to polysomnography in sleep apnea patients

    Article • Physiological Measurement, February 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  30. Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Quantification by Cardiovascular Data Analysis

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2014, PLOS

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  31. Agreement of different methods for assessing sleep characteristics: a comparison of two actigraphs, wrist and hip placement, and self-report with polysomnography

    Article • Sleep Medicine, September 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  32. Driving habits and risk factors for traffic accidents among sleep apnea patients - a European multi-centre cohort study

    Article • Journal of Sleep Research, July 2014, Wiley

    Dr Renata Riha, Dr Thomas Penzel, maria bonsignore

  33. Nocturnal snoring decreases daytime baroreceptor sensitivity

    Article • Respiratory Medicine, July 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  34. Symbolic dynamics marker of heart rate variability combined with clinical variables enhance obstructive sleep apnea screening

    Article • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, June 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  35. Detection of Respiratory Arousals Using Photoplethysmography (PPG) Signal in Sleep Apnea Patients

    Article • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  36. Cardio-Respiratory Coordination Increases during Sleep Apnea

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2014, PLOS

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  37. Sleep apnoea severity independently predicts glycaemic health in nondiabetic subjects: the ESADA study

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, April 2014, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Thomas Penzel, maria bonsignore

  38. Konsensuspapier zur Diagnostik und Therapie schlafbezogener Atmungsstörungen bei Erwachsenen

    Article • Pneumologie, February 2014, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  39. The use of overnight pulse wave analysis for recognition of cardiovascular risk factors and risk

    Article • Journal of Hypertension, February 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  40. Cardiac autonomic modulation and sleepiness: Physiological consequences of sleep deprivation due to 40h of prolonged wakefulness

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  41. A review of signals used in sleep analysis

    Article • Physiological Measurement, December 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  42. Catalogue of knowledge and skills for sleep medicine

    Article • Journal of Sleep Research, October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Dieter Riemann, Dr Thomas Penzel

  43. ASSESSMENT OF FEATURE SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION APPROACHES TO ENHANCE INFORMATION FROM OVERNIGHT OXIMETRY IN THE CONTEXT OF APNEA DIAGNOSIS

    Article • International Journal of Neural Systems, October 2013, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Thomas Penzel, felix del Campo

  44. Transitions in effective scaling behavior of accelerometric time series across sleep and wake

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), September 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  45. Grid based sleep research — Analysis of polysomnographies using a grid infrastructure

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, September 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  46. Synchronisation and coupling analysis: Applied cardiovascular physics in sleep medicine

    Article • July 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  47. Estimating sleep disordered breathing based on heart rate analysis

    Article • July 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  48. Estimating relative respiratory effort from features of photo-plethysmography signal

    Article • July 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  49. Investigating Relative Respiratory Effort Signals During Mixed Sleep Apnea Using Photoplethysmogram

    Article • Annals of Biomedical Engineering, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  50. Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Noninvasive Electromagnetic Brain Stimulation

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  51. Agreement in the Scoring of Respiratory Events and Sleep Among International Sleep Centers

    Article • SLEEP, April 2013, Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS)

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  52. Recommendations for the management of patients with obstructive sleep apnoea and hypertension

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, February 2013, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Renata Riha, Dr Thomas Penzel, maria bonsignore

  53. Inter-scorer Reliability between Sleep Centers Can Teach Us What to Improve in the Scoring Rules

    Article • Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, January 2013, American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM)

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  54. Guidelines for the Recording and Evaluation of Pharmaco-Sleep Studies in Man: The International Pharmaco-EEG Society (IPEG)

    Article • Neuropsychobiology, January 2013, Karger Publishers

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  55. Coupling analysis of transient cardiovascular dynamics

    Article • Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  56. Diagnostik schlafbezogener Atmungsstörungen mittels portabler Verfahren

    Article • Pneumologie, December 2012, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  57. Phase transitions in physiologic coupling

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  58. Erweiterte ambulante Polygraphie bei Patienten mit Ein- und/oder Durchschlafstörungen

    Article • Der Nervenarzt, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  59. Orexin Receptor Antagonism, a New Sleep-Enabling Paradigm: A Proof-of-Concept Clinical Trial

    Article • Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, May 2012, Nature

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  60. Position paper on the management of patients with obstructive sleep apnea and hypertension

    Article • Journal of Hypertension, April 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Renata Riha, Dr Thomas Penzel, maria bonsignore

  61. Effect of CPAP therapy on daytime cardiovascular regulations in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

    Article • Computers in Biology and Medicine, March 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  62. Coupling analysis in sleep medicine by means of symbolic coupling traces

    Article • Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  63. Automatic analysis of systolic, diastolic and mean blood pressure of continuous measurement before, during and after sleep arousals in polysomnographic overnight recordings

    Article • Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  64. ECG signal analysis for the assessment of sleep-disordered breathing and sleep pattern

    Article • Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, December 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  65. Das Schlafapnoe-Syndrom in der Rehabilitation

    Article • Herz, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  66. Auto bi-level pressure relief–PAP is as effective as CPAP in OSA patients—a pilot study

    Article • Sleep And Breathing, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Penzel

  67. Sleep apnea symptoms and accident risk factors in Persian commercial vehicle drivers

    Article • Sleep And Breathing, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Penzel