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Respiratory diseases account for a significant portion of global mortality. Affordable and early detection is an effective way of addressing these ailments. To this end, a low-cost commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), IEEE 802.15.4z standard…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Anton Lambrecht , Stijn Luchie , Jaron Fontaine , Ben Van Herbruggen , Adnan Shahid , Eli De Poorter

Human motion detection is getting considerable attention in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven healthcare systems. Human motion can be used to provide remote healthcare solutions for vulnerable people by identifying particular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 William Taylor , Syed Aziz Shah , Kia Dashtipour , Adnan Zahid , Qammer H. Abbasi , Muhammad Ali Imran

Respiratory diseases impose a significant burden on global health, with current diagnostic and management practices primarily reliant on specialist clinical testing. This work aims to develop machine learning-based algorithms to facilitate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Negar Orangi-Fard , Alexandru Bogdan , Hersh Sagreiya

Introduction: Automated Lung X-Ray Abnormality Detection System is the application which distinguish the normal x-ray images from infected x-ray images and highlight area considered for prediction, with the recent pandemic a need to have a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Nagullas KS , Vivekanand. V , Narayana Darapaneni , Anwesh R P

In this paper, we demonstrate the ability to recognize hand gestures in a non-contact, wireless fashion using only incoherent light signals reflected from a human subject. Fundamentally distinguished from radar, lidar and camera-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Li Yu , Hisham Abuella , Md Zobaer Islam , John F. O'Hara , Christopher Crick , Sabit Ekin

Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition that affects millions of people worldwide. While this condition can be managed by administering controller medications through handheld inhalers, clinical studies have shown low adherence to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Davoud Shariat Panah , Alessandro N Franciosi , Cormac McCarthy , Andrew Hines

The increasing demand for wireless sensing systems has led to the exploration of alternative technologies to overcome the spectrum scarcity of traditional approaches based on radio frequency (RF) waves or microwaves. Incoherent light…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-21 Md Zobaer Islam , Sabit Ekin , John F. O'Hara

This study demonstrates the feasibility of radar-based non-contact respiratory monitoring for wombats. Two measurement experiments were conducted in June and December 2024 using 79-GHz millimeter-wave radar systems to monitor the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Marina Murakami , Ryoko Iwase , Chiemi Iba , Daisuke Ogura , Takuya Sakamoto

The past few years have witnessed the great potential of exploiting channel state information retrieved from commodity WiFi devices for respiration monitoring. However, existing approaches only work when the target is close to the WiFi…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-13 Youwei Zeng , Dan Wu , Jie Xiong , Enze Yi , Ruiyang Gao , Daqing Zhang

This paper presents an end-to-end deep learning framework using passive WiFi sensing to classify and estimate human respiration activity. A passive radar test-bed is used with two channels where the first channel provides the reference WiFi…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 U. M. Khan , Z. Kabir , S. A. Hassan , S. H. Ahmed

Good quality sleep is essential for good health and sleep monitoring becomes a vital research topic. This paper provides a low cost, continuous and contactless WiFi-based vital signs (breathing and heart rate) monitoring method. In…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Yu Gu , Xiang Zhang , Zhi Liu , Fuji Ren

Objective: Sleep related respiratory abnormalities are typically detected using polysomnography. There is a need in general medicine and critical care for a more convenient method to automatically detect sleep apnea from a simple,…

In this study, we present a wireless (non-contact) gesture recognition method using only incoherent light wave signals reflected from a human subject. In comparison to existing radar, light shadow, sound and camera-based sensing systems,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Md Zobaer Islam , Li Yu , Hisham Abuella , John F. O'Hara , Christopher Crick , Sabit Ekin

Non-contact estimation of respiratory pattern (RP) and respiration rate (RR) has multiple applications. Existing methods for RP and RR measurement fall into one of the three categories - (i) estimation through nasal air flow measurement,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 A. P. Prathosh , Pragathi Praveena , Lalit K. Mestha , Sanjay Bharadwaj

We developed a noncontact measurement system for monitoring the respiration of multiple people using millimeter-wave array radar. To separate the radar echoes of multiple people, conventional techniques cluster the radar echoes in the time,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Takato Koda , Takuya Sakamoto , Shigeaki Okumura , Hirofumi Taki

Breathing is one of the most important body functions because it provides it with oxygen, which is vital for energy production. In addition, the removal of carbon dioxide actively regulates the acid-base level, which is essential for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Janosch Kunczik , Kerstin Hubbermann , Lucas Mösch , Andreas Follmann , Michael Czaplik , Carina Barbosa Pereira

Received signal strength based respiration rate monitoring is emerging as an alternative non-contact technology. These systems make use of the radio measurements of short-range commodity wireless devices, which vary due to the inhalation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-28 Hüseyin Yiğitler , Ossi Kaltiokallio , Roland Hostettler , Riku Jäntti , Neal Patwari , Simo Särkkä

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar enables contactless respiratory sensing,yet fine-grained monitoring is often degraded by nonstationary interference from body micromotions.To achieve micromotion interference removal,we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Yong Wang , Qifan Shen , Bao Zhang , Zijun Huang , Chengbo Zhu , Shuai Yao , Qisong Wu

This paper presents an inception-based deep neural network for detecting lung diseases using respiratory sound input. Recordings of respiratory sound collected from patients are firstly transformed into spectrograms where both spectral and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Lam Pham , Huy Phan , Ross King , Alfred Mertins , Ian McLoughlin

Continuous monitoring of respiratory activity is desirable in many clinical applications to detect respiratory events. Non-contact monitoring of respiration can be achieved with near- and far-infrared spectrum cameras. However, current…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Gaetano Scebba , Giulia Da Poian , Walter Karlen