Human Vital Signs Signal Monitoring and Repairment with an Optical Fiber Sensor Based on Deep Learning

Abstract

Optical fiber sensors have been widely applied for their advantages such as small size, lightweight, and strong electronic interference robustness. Compared with current electronic sensors, optical fiber sensors perform better in measuring parameters in harsh environments, which makes them suitable for more and more applications, such as target tracing and detection and monitoring of health signs in medical services. However, due to fiber optic sensor failure, improper transmission and storage, or other reasons, missing data occur from time to time. Therefore, effective missing value processing methods are desirable as they can be used to facilitate data processing or analysis. In the present study, gated recurrent unit (GRU) interpolation is performed by using the generative adversarial network (GAN) model to process the irregular delay relationship between the data before and after the collection of incomplete vital signs data. Furthermore, a data interpolation model based on VS-E2E-GAN is proposed to reconstruct vital signs signals. The ROC curve (AUC), metrics including mean squared error (MSE), and accuracy (ACC) of experiments reach 0.901, 0.777, and 0.908, respectively, which indicates that the proposed VS-E2E-GAN model performs well in terms of vital signs data imputation and repairment, has strong robustness when compared with other works, and has potential clinical application in health monitoring, smart home, and so on.