AMS-HD: Hyperdimensional Computing for Real-Time and Energy-Efficient Acute Mountain Sickness Detection.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Acute mountain sickness (AMS) is the most prevalent altitude illness, affecting unacclimatized individuals ascending above 2,500 m and potentially escalating to life threatening cerebral or pulmonary edema. Conventional machine learning (ML) methods for AMS detection from wearable physi ological signals often fail to meet real-time hardware efficiency requirements of continuous monitoring. We present AMS-HD, the first hyperdimensional computing (HDC)-based frame work for real-time AMS detection, spanning high-level bipolar (1/+1) computing for mobile platforms and low-level binary (0/1) computing for FPGA and ASIC targets. The framework integrates mutual information feature selection, hypervector encoding, and positional projection to enhance classification efficiency. Validation spans ARM, FPGA, and smartwatch-smartphone platforms A Complete Framework Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) ID, Senior Member, IEEE From high-level to low-level design Bipolar Computing AMS severity Altitude Binary Computing- using wearable-accessible SpO2 and heart rate signals. AMS-HD matches or outperforms SVM and MLP baselines in both binary and multiclass classification, achieving up to 91% accuracy and 90% F1-score in binary classification, and up to 85% accuracy on external AMS-related datasets. On FPGA, AMS-HD reduces LUT and flip-flop usage by 7.3× and 5.8×, while consuming 3.9× less power than MLP. On mobile platforms, AMS-HD requires only 1% battery per session, 60 Bytes of memory, and 2.50 ms inference time- approximately 2× and more than 3×lower energy consumption than SVM and MLP. AMS-HD provides a scalable, hardware-aware alternative to conventional ML for real-time AMS monitoring, achieving competitive performance with substantially lower resource consumption. This work presents the first complete HDC framework for altitude sickness detection, bridging wearable inference and low-level hardware deployment for resource-constrained health monitoring.