AI Aided Noise Processing of Spintronic Based IoT Sensor for Magnetocardiography Application
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As we are about to embark upon the highly hyped “Society 5.0”, powered by the Internet of Things (IoT), traditional ways to monitor human heart signals for tracking cardio-vascular conditions are challenging, particularly in remote healthcare settings. On the merits of low power consumption, portability, and non-intrusiveness, there are no suitable IoT solutions that can provide information comparable to the conventional Electrocardiography (ECG). In this paper, we propose an IoT device utilizing a spintronic-technology-based ultra-sensitive Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) sensor that measures the magnetic fields produced by cardio-vascular electromagnetic activity, i.e. Magentocardiography (MCG). We treat the low-frequency noise generated by the sensor, which is also a challenge for most other sensors dealing with low-frequency bio-magnetic signals. Instead of relying on generic signal processing techniques such as moving average, we employ deep-learning training on bio-magnetic signals. Using an existing dataset of ECG records, MCG signals are synthesized. A unique deep learning model, composed of a one-dimensional convolution layer, Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) layer, and a fully-connected neural layer, is trained using the labeled data moving through a striding window, which is able to smartly capture and eliminate the noise features. Simulation results are reported to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method that demonstrates encouraging performance.
Journal: ICC 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)