arXiv:2508. 02349v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Monitoring respiration parameters such as respiratory rate could be beneficial to understand the impact of training on equine health and performance and ultimately improve equine welfare.
arXiv:2606. 26723v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Respiratory activity is a direct and interpretable physiological channel for wearable stress and affective-state recognition, yet many studies emphasize classification accuracy without identifying which respiratory properties separate different states.
BreathGRU is a semi‑supervised Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit framework designed to segment speech and breath events in respiratory audio. It combines acoustic feature extraction, bidirectional recurrent modeling, pseudo‑label refinement, and duration‑constrained Segmental Viterbi decoding to produce accurate speech‑breath segmentation. In evaluations against existing methods, BreathGRU achieved the highest breath event recall, lowest onset‑localisation error, and highest Mean Match Intersection over Union, outperforming large pretrained VAD models such as Silero.
Apnoea of prematurity is characterised by recurrent episodes of cessation of breathing and remains difficult to detect reliably using routinely monitored physiological signals in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Existing bedside monitors rely primarily on respiratory rate and oxygen saturation thresholds, often generating high false-positive alarm rates and missing short or irregular events.
arXiv:2504. 03772v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Respiratory diseases account for a significant portion of global mortality.
The study investigates respiratory signals from the WESAD dataset to detect stress and other affective states. It compares compact 1‑D CNN models trained on raw 60‑second signals with handcrafted respiratory signatures that capture timing, variability, waveform, spectral, and autocorrelation features. While the CNN achieves the highest accuracy for stress detection, the handcrafted signatures provide stronger, physiologically interpretable markers for baseline, amusement, and especially meditation states.
arXiv:2606. 10972v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study aims to explore the performance of the VAR model in comparison with mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) matrices and log-mel spectrograms using deep learning.
AF-Mamba is a deep learning model that predicts atrial fibrillation (AF) onset one hour in advance using long‑term RR intervals. It combines temporal convolutional networks for local feature extraction with Mamba, a state‑space model for long‑range sequence modeling, achieving high sensitivity (0.889) and specificity (0.943) in subject‑wise testing. The model maintains strong performance across unseen datasets, offering a favorable trade‑off between predictive accuracy and computational efficiency for real‑time ambulatory monitoring.
The paper presents a lightweight ResNet-based two-stage cascade for passive acoustic monitoring of killer whales. First, it detects vocalizations, then it classifies confident detections into five eastern North Pacific ecotypes, abstaining on ambiguous calls. The pipeline achieves high macro‑F1 scores on the DCLDE 2027 dataset and improves real‑time inference speed, while active learning adapts the detector to new acoustic environments.
arXiv:2509. 11606v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for approximately 17.
The paper introduces RALCT, a lightweight Convolutional Transformer that combines randomized audio augmentations, MFCCs, and log‑mel spectrograms to extract robust features for environmental sound recognition. With only about 310,000 parameters, RALCT achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy—over 93% on UrbanSound8K, peaking at 94.56%—making it suitable for deployment on mobile devices. The authors also develop a mobile app that integrates the model to provide real‑time safety alerts for hearing‑impaired users.
The paper introduces HealthCUES, a real‑time streaming pipeline that extracts and analyzes cough and throat‑clearing events from live spoken conversations. It detects coughs within sub‑second latency, distinguishes cough subtypes (dry, wet, barking, whooping), differentiates coughing from throat clearing, and estimates temporal boundaries, all while gating alerts based on conversational context. The system, built on Qwen3Omni, achieves high accuracy (93% F1 for cough detection) and low latency (340 ms) and has been validated by healthcare professionals for telehealth use.
arXiv:2606. 08247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Acute asthma risk assessment requires rapid interpretation of respiratory sounds, oxygenation, airflow limitation, speech ability, work of breathing, mental status, and response to reliever therapy.