AI on the Pulse: Real-Time Health Anomaly Detection with Wearable and Ambient Intelligence
This addresses the problem of continuous, personalized health monitoring for patients in home-care scenarios, though it is incremental as it builds on existing anomaly detection and sensor fusion techniques.
The paper tackles real-time health anomaly detection by fusing wearable sensors and ambient intelligence with a universal time-series model, achieving a ~22% improvement in F1 score over state-of-the-art methods and successful deployment in home settings.
We introduce AI on the Pulse, a real-world-ready anomaly detection system that continuously monitors patients using a fusion of wearable sensors, ambient intelligence, and advanced AI models. Powered by UniTS, a state-of-the-art (SoTA) universal time-series model, our framework autonomously learns each patient's unique physiological and behavioral patterns, detecting subtle deviations that signal potential health risks. Unlike classification methods that require impractical, continuous labeling in real-world scenarios, our approach uses anomaly detection to provide real-time, personalized alerts for reactive home-care interventions. Our approach outperforms 12 SoTA anomaly detection methods, demonstrating robustness across both high-fidelity medical devices (ECG) and consumer wearables, with a ~ 22% improvement in F1 score. However, the true impact of AI on the Pulse lies in @HOME, where it has been successfully deployed for continuous, real-world patient monitoring. By operating with non-invasive, lightweight devices like smartwatches, our system proves that high-quality health monitoring is possible without clinical-grade equipment. Beyond detection, we enhance interpretability by integrating LLMs, translating anomaly scores into clinically meaningful insights for healthcare professionals.