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Belun Ring Platform With an Improved Algorithm for OSA Assessment

Belun Ring Platform (BLS-100) Home Sleep Apnea Testing Device With an Improved Algorithm for Assessment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Comparison to In-Lab Polysomnography

Status
Completed
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04885062
Enrollment
136
Registered
2021-05-13
Start date
2021-02-01
Completion date
2022-06-30
Last updated
2026-04-13

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Sleep Architecture, Sleep-Disordered Breathing

Keywords

Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Wearable, Home Sleep Apnea Testing, Photoplethysmography, Validation, Artificial Intelligence

Brief summary

OSA is commonly diagnosed with either attended in-lab polysomnography (PSG) or unattended home sleep apnea testing (HSAT). The BLS-100 (Belun Technology Company Limited, Hong Kong) is a novel neural network-based HSAT platform consists of a ring shape pulse oximeter sensor, a cradle, and an improved proprietary analytic algorithm. This study investigates the hypothesis that the BLS-100 is a reasonable HSAT device for OSA assessment.

Interventions

The Belun Ring sensor will be applied to the proximal phalanx of the index finger in the non-dominant hand of the participating individuals prior to their sleep onset in the sleep lab and will be removed upon awakening at the end of the sleep period on the following morning. The attended in-lab sleep study will be performed simultaneously in a standard fashion.

DIAGNOSTIC_TESTPSG

All patients scheduled for attended overnight in-lab polysomnography (PSG) in our 2 sleep labs will undergo PSG testing. On the same night of the PSG testing, these same patients will also wear the Belun Ring device. After the study, we will compare results of the Belun Ring device vis-à-vis with the results of the PSG on the same patient.

Sponsors

Belun Technology Company Limited
Lead SponsorOTHER
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
CollaboratorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Provision of signed and dated informed consent form. * Age 18-80 * Clinically assessed and suspicious for OSA

Exclusion criteria

* Full night PAP titration study * On home O2, noninvasive ventilator, diaphragmatic pacing, or any form of nerve stimulator * Having atrial fibrillation-flutter, pacemaker/defibrillator, LVEF \< 55%, left ventricular assist device (LVAD), or status post cardiac transplantation * Patients taking narcotics * Recent hospitalization or recent surgery in the past 30 days * Unstable cardiopulmonary status on the night of the study judged to be unsafe for sleep study by the sleep tech and/or the on-call sleep physician An individual who meets the above criteria but fails to have at least 4 hours of technically valid sleep based on BLS-100 in a diagnostic study or at least 3 hours of technically valid sleep during the diagnostic portion of a split night study will be excluded from statistical analyses.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
To Evaluate the Ability of the Belun Ring Pulse Oximeter to Gauge the Apnea-Hypopnea Index (AHI)1 overnight sleep study (1 Day)Apnea-Hypopnea Index (AHI) is defined as the total number of apnea and hypopnea events per hour of sleep, where higher values indicate more severe sleep-disordered breathing. In this study, standard overnight polysomnography(PSG) and Belun Ring pulse oximeter were simultaneously measured. The AHI derived from PSG data was served as the reference. The primary outcome evaluates the accuracy of the Belun Ring by calculating the difference in Ring-REI by the Belun Ring compared with AHI derived from PSG recordings for each participant. The difference was calculated as: Ring-REI (Belun Ring) - AHI (PSG). Negative values indicate that the Belun Ring estimated a lower AHI than PSG, while positive values indicate that the Belun Ring estimated a higher AHI than PSG. Summary statistics of these differences were used to assess agreement between the Belun Ring device and PSG in measuring sleep apnea severity.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Sleep Stage Parameters1 overnight sleep study (1 Day)To determine the accuracy of BLS-100 sleep stage parameters to classify the human sleep stage (Wake, REM and Non-REM) by comparing to the classification results of in-lab PSG.

Countries

United States

Contacts

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORAmbrose A Chiang, MD

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Baseline characteristics

Characteristic
Age, Continuous48.3 years
STANDARD_DEVIATION 14.4
Apnea-Hypopnea Index (AHI)15.8 events per hour
Body Mass Index (BMI)38.7 kg per square meter
STANDARD_DEVIATION 9.3
Race/Ethnicity, Customized
Race
African American
52 Participants
Race/Ethnicity, Customized
Race
Asian
2 Participants
Race/Ethnicity, Customized
Race
Caucasian
24 Participants
Race/Ethnicity, Customized
Race
Hispanic
1 Participants
Race/Ethnicity, Customized
Race
Others
1 Participants
Race/Ethnicity, Customized
Race
Unknown
4 Participants
Region of Enrollment
United States
84 participants
Sex: Female, Male
Female
42 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Male
42 Participants

Adverse events

Event typeEG000
affected / at risk
deaths
Total, all-cause mortality
0 / 136
other
Total, other adverse events
0 / 136
serious
Total, serious adverse events
0 / 136

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Apr 14, 2026