Learning Blood Oxygen from Respiration Signals

Hao He, Ying-Cong Chen, Yuan Yuan, Dina Katabi

Keywords: healthcare, medical application

Abstract: Monitoring blood oxygen is critical in a variety of medical conditions. For almost a century, pulse oximetry has been the only non-invasive method for measuring blood oxygen. While highly useful, pulse oximetry has important limitations. It requires wearable sensors, which can be cumbersome for older patients. It is also known to be biased when used for dark-skinned subjects. In this paper, we demonstrate, for the first time, the feasibility of predicting oxygen saturation from breathing. By eliminating the dependency on oximetry, we eliminate bias against skin color. Further, since breathing can be monitored without body contact by analyzing the radio signal in the environment, we show that oxygen too can be monitored without any wearable devices. We introduce a new approach for leveraging auxiliary variables via a switcher-based multi-headed neural network model. Empirical results show that our model achieves good accuracy on multiple medical datasets.

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