Stochastic resonance is a new type of weak signal detection method. Compared with traditional noise suppression technology, stochastic resonance uses noise to enhance weak signal information, and there is a mechanism for the transfer of noise energy to signal energy. The purpose of this paper is to study the theory and application of weak signal detection based on stochastic resonance mechanism. This paper studies the stochastic resonance characteristics of the bistable circuit and conducts an experimental simulation of its circuit in the Multisim simulation environment. It is verified that the bistable circuit can achieve the stochastic resonance function very well, and it provides strong support for the actual production of the bistable circuit. This paper studies the stochastic resonance phenomenon of FHN neuron model and bistable model, analyzes the response of periodic signals and nonperiodic signals, verifies the effect of noise on stochastic resonance, and lays the foundation for subsequent experiments. It proposes to feedback the link and introduces a two-layer FHN neural network model to improve the weak signal detection performance under a variable noise background. The paper also proposes a multifault detection method based on the total empirical mode decomposition of sensitive intrinsic mode components with variable scale adaptive stochastic resonance. Using the weighted kurtosis index as the measurement index of the system output can not only maintain the similarity between the system output signal and the original signal but also be sensitive to impact characteristics, overcoming the missed or false detection of the traditional kurtosis index. Experimental research shows that this method has better noise suppression ability and a clear reproduction effect on details. Especially for images contaminated by strong noise (D = 500), compared with traditional restoration methods, it has better performance in subjective visual effects and signal-to-noise ratio evaluation.