Medical & Clinical Disclaimer
YASAFlaskified and psgscoring are research software, intended exclusively for use by qualified professionals (physicians, researchers, registered polysomnographic technologists) in a research or clinical research context.
This software has not been evaluated, cleared, or approved by any regulatory authority as a medical device, including:
- European Union Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR 2017/745) — no CE mark
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA 21 CFR Part 820 / 510(k)) — no FDA clearance
- Any equivalent national or regional medical device framework
All computed indices — including AHI, OAHI, ODI, PLMI, arousal index, and RDI — are research-grade estimates. They must be:
- Reviewed by a qualified, licensed clinician before any diagnostic or therapeutic decision
- Validated against manual scoring by a registered polysomnographic technologist (RPSGT)
- Interpreted in the context of the full clinical picture and patient history
✓ Designed for:
- Academic sleep research
- Algorithm development and benchmarking
- Clinical research under ethics committee approval
- Educational purposes in sleep medicine
- Second opinion and screening
✗ NOT designed for:
- Standalone clinical diagnosis without expert review
- Automated treatment decisions
- Unsupervised patient screening programmes
- Any setting where output directly determines patient care
External validation on the PSG-IPA dataset (PhysioNet, 5 recordings, 47 independent scorer sessions) demonstrated mean |ΔAHI| = 1.9/h and severity concordance of 4/5 (80%). PSG-IPA.
A formal single-centre validation study (n≥50) is in preparation. Until peer-reviewed results are published, all outputs should be treated as preliminary and verified by a qualified clinician.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY.
psgscoring v0.38.0 · YASAFlaskified v0.39.3 · April 2026
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