用手机摄像头+树莓派实现早产儿非接触行为监测,精准又便宜。
Vision-Based Embedded System for Noncontact Monitoring of Preterm Infant Behavior in Low-Resource Care Settings
- 用量化MobileNet模型在树莓派上实时识别早产儿睡/醒和哭闹状态。
- 睡眠识别准确率91.8%,哭闹分类97.7%,且模型体积减少68%。
- 适合资源有限的新生儿病房,可部署在边缘设备上持续监控。
早产儿仍是新生儿死亡的主要原因,尤其在缺乏先进新生儿重症监护室(NICUs)的低资源地区更为突出。持续监测婴儿行为(如睡眠/清醒状态、哭闹事件)至关重要,但传统依赖人工观察或侵入式传感器的方法易出错、不实用,还可能造成皮肤损伤。本文提出一种新型非侵入式自动化视觉监测框架,采用在树莓派上部署的量化MobileNet模型实现实时行为状态检测。在公开新生儿图像数据集上训练与评估,系统在睡眠检测上达到91.8%的准确率,在哭闹/正常分类上达97.7%,同时保持适用于边缘部署的计算效率。通过对比基准测试,我们分析了模型大小、推理延迟与诊断准确率之间的权衡。结果表明,尽管更大架构(如ResNet152、VGG19)仅带来微弱准确率提升,但其计算开销对实时边缘应用不可行。所提框架集成三大创新:模型量化实现内存高效推理(体积减少68%)、专为树莓派优化的视觉处理流水线,以及用于临床报警的安全物联网通信。研究证实,轻量级优化模型(如MobileNet)是构建可扩展、低成本、临床可用的NICU监测系统的最佳基础,为资源受限环境下的早产儿护理提供可行路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Preterm birth remains a leading cause of neonatal mortality, disproportionately affecting low-resource settings with limited access to advanced neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).Continuous monitoring of infant behavior, such as sleep/awake states and crying episodes, is critical but relies on manual observation or invasive sensors, which are prone to error, impractical, and can cause skin damage. This paper presents a novel, noninvasive, and automated vision-based framework to address this gap. We introduce an embedded monitoring system that utilizes a quantized MobileNet model deployed on a Raspberry Pi for real-time behavioral state detection. When trained and evaluated on public neonatal image datasets, our system achieves state-of-the-art accuracy (91.8% for sleep detection and 97.7% for crying/normal classification) while maintaining computational efficiency suitable for edge deployment. Through comparative benchmarking, we provide a critical analysis of the trade-offs between model size, inference latency, and diagnostic accuracy. Our findings demonstrate that while larger architectures (e.g., ResNet152, VGG19) offer marginal gains in accuracy, their computational cost is prohibitive for real-time edge use. The proposed framework integrates three key innovations: model quantization for memory-efficient inference (68% reduction in size), Raspberry Pi-optimized vision pipelines, and secure IoT communication for clinical alerts. This work conclusively shows that lightweight, optimized models such as the MobileNet offer the most viable foundation for scalable, low-cost, and clinically actionable NICU monitoring systems, paving the way for improved preterm care in resource-constrained environments.
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