On Tuesday, 28 October, ECE/CARSE faculty Dr. Jésús Sánchez Pérez will offer his talk “Towards Continuous Non-invasive Pulmonary Monitoring: Challenges and Promising Technologies” as the 3rd talk of the CARSE 2025 Fall Seminar Series. Abstract:

Chronic respiratory diseases affect millions and are leading causes of death in the US and worldwide. Pulmonary auscultation provides clinicians with critical respiratory health information via the examination of lung sounds (LS) and the context of the respiratory phase and chest location in which they are measured. Despite recent advances in auscultation technologies, they remain limited by their (1) intermittent nature, (2) subjectivity and need for specialized clinical knowledge, and (3) lack of respiratory and activity context. The combination of wearable multimodal respiratory sensing and AI techniques for data-driven signal processing and knowledge discovery has emerged as a promising approach. In this presentation, I will discuss recent applications of such technologies for assessing pulmonary health in adult and pediatric patient non-invasively via the combination of transthoracic bioimpedance, LS, and chest kinematics. I will also present the recent application of self-supervised learning (SSL) to address the data labelling challenges in physiological sensing, a novel method applicable to various fields including radio science. Finally, I will discuss emerging techniques in contactless respiratory monitoring using mmWave radars. These technological innovations represent a step towards continuous pulmonary monitoring in uncontrolled settings, which may ultimately improve titration of care and enable timely detection of respiratory diseases.

The talk will be at 10:30 AM in room S-222B, and will be also broadcasted via Zoom: