Deep Learning versus Professional Healthcare Equipment: A Fine-Grained Breathing Rate Monitoring Model

Abstract EN

In mHealth field, accurate breathing rate monitoring technique has benefited a broad array of healthcare-related applications.

Many approaches try to use smartphone or wearable device with fine-grained monitoring algorithm to accomplish the task, which can only be done by professional medical equipment before.

However, such schemes usually result in bad performance in comparison to professional medical equipment.

In this paper, we propose DeepFilter, a deep learning-based fine-grained breathing rate monitoring algorithm that works on smartphone and achieves professional-level accuracy.

DeepFilter is a bidirectional recurrent neural network (RNN) stacked with convolutional layers and speeded up by batch normalization.

Moreover, we collect 16.17 GB breathing sound recording data of 248 hours from 109 and another 10 volunteers to train and test our model, respectively.

The results show a reasonably good accuracy of breathing rate monitoring.