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Cross-Subject Respiratory State Recognition Based on Ultrasonic and IMU Signals

  • Shuo Feng
  • , Zhiyong Wang
  • , Jiaole Wang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

Continuous and accurate respiratory monitoring is important for early disease detection and health management. This paper presents a novel multimodal data acquisition system that simultaneously collects Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and A-mode ultrasound signals from the chest and abdomen to monitor respiratory activity. We systematically evaluate various classification methods and fusion strategies, including feature-level vector concatenation, tensor fusion, a custom IMU-Ultrasound Convolutional Neural Network with Attention Fusion (IU-CNN-AF), decision-level max fusion, and weighted fusion, both single-subject and cross-subject respiratory state recognition across three breathing patterns (normal, deep, and high-frequency). Experiments on data from nine healthy male volunteers, using Leave-One-Group-Out cross-validation, demonstrate that multimodal fusion significantly outperforms corresponding single-modal methods, especially in more challenging cross-individual scenarios, with decision-level max fusion achieving an accuracy rate of 89.02%, outperforming other methods. Although the available dataset size limits the performance of the IU-CNN-AF network, it still demonstrates potential. These findings highlight the effectiveness and robustness of multimodal sensor fusion for wearable respiratory monitoring and provide valuable insights for future development of portable healthcare systems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Robotics and Applications - 18th International Conference, ICIRA 2025, Proceedings
EditorsTakayuki Matsuno, Honghai Liu, Lianqing Liu, Zhouping Yin, Xiangyang Zhu, Weihong Ren, Zhiyong Wang, Yixuan Sheng
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages573-584
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9789819521005
DOIs
StatePublished - 2026
Externally publishedYes
Event18th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2025 - Okayama, Japan
Duration: 6 Aug 20259 Aug 2025

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume16076 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2025
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityOkayama
Period6/08/259/08/25

Keywords

  • A-mode Ultrasound
  • Cross-Subject Recognition
  • Inertial Measurement Unit
  • Multimodal Sensor Fusion
  • Respiratory Monitoring
  • Sensor Fusion
  • Wearable Healthcare

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