Ashan Dhananjaya

Mr. Ashan Dhananjaya


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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ADAshan Dhananjaya
Ashan Dhananjaya
GGGihan Gamage
Gihan Gamage
SSSivaluxman Sivananthavel
Sivaluxman Sivananthavel
NMNishan Mills
Nishan Mills
DSDaswin De Silva
Daswin De Silva
MMMilos Manic
Milos Manic
Sleep is increasingly acknowledged as a cornerstone of public health, with chronic sleep loss implicated in preventable injury and deaths. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) affects over one billion people worldwide but remains widely under-diagnosed due to dependence on polysomnography (PSG), an overnight, hospital-based intrusive procedure. As an adjunct to the clinical diagnosis of OSA, this paper presents a low-cost, smartphone-based Generative AI agent framework for sleep apnea detection and sleep coaching at the bedside. Powered by an on=device Generative AI model, the four agents of this framework include a classifier, an analyser, a visualiser, and a sleep coach. The key agent activities performed are sleep apnea detection, sleep data management, data analysis, and natural language sleep coaching. The framework was empirically evaluated on a subject-independent hold-out set drawn from a dataset of 500 clinician annotated clips collected from 10 clinically diagnosed OSA patients. Sleep apnea detection achieved an accuracy of 0.89, precision of 0.91, and recall of 0.88, with nightly Apnea–Hypopnea Index (AHI) estimates strongly correlated with PSG-based clinical scores. The framework was further assessed on the performance metrics of computation, latency, memory, and energy usage. The results of these experiments confirm the feasibility of the proposed framework for large-scale, low-cost OSA screening, with pathways for future work in federated learning, noise robustness, and broad clinical validation.