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We consider the use of a running measure of power spectrum disorder to distinguish between the normal sinus rhythm of the heart and two forms of cardiac arrhythmia: atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter. This spectral entropy measure is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-02-16 Phillip P. A. Staniczenko , Chiu Fan Lee , Nick S. Jones

Real-time vital sign monitoring is gaining immense significance not only in the medical field but also in personal health management. Facing the needs of different application scenarios of the smart and healthy city in the future, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-27 Dingding Liang , Yang Chen , Jiawei Gao , Taixia Shi , Jianping Yao

Wearable devices are widely used for heart rate (HR) monitoring, yet their accuracy across diverse body compositions and skin tones remains uncertain. This study evaluated four wrist worn devices (Apple, Fitbit, Samsung, Garmin) in 58…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Kostrna , Jason , Oparina , Ekaterina , Palacios , Cristina , Rodriguez , Andres J , Pei , JunZhu , Ajmal , Ajmal , Ramella-Roman , Jessica C

Photoplethysmography (PPG) Sensors, widely deployed in smartwatches, offer a simple and non-invasive authentication approach for daily use. However, PPG authentication faces reliability issues due to motion artifacts from physical activity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jiankai Tang , Jiacheng Liu , Renling Tong , Kai Zhu , Zhe Li , Xin Yi , Junliang Xing , Yuanchun Shi , Yuntao Wang

Continuous photoplethysmography (PPG)-based blood pressure monitoring is necessary for healthcare and fitness applications. In Artificial Intelligence (AI), signal classification levels with the machine and deep learning arrangements need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Nida Nasir , Mustafa Sameer , Feras Barneih , Omar Alshaltone , Muneeb Ahmed

Recent advances in deep learning have made it increasingly feasible to estimate heart rate remotely in smart environments by analyzing videos. However, a notable limitation of deep learning methods is their heavy reliance on extensive sets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Divij Gupta , Ali Etemad

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables non-contact heart rate (HR) estimation from facial videos which gives significant convenience compared with traditional contact-based measurements. In the real-world long-term health monitoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Jianwei Li , Zitong Yu , Jingang Shi

Photoplethysmography (PPG) refers to the measurement of variations in blood volume using light and is a feature of most wearable devices. The PPG signals provide insight into the body's circulatory system and can be employed to extract…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yuyang Miao , Harry J. Davies , Danilo P. Mandic

Photoplethysmography is a non-invasive optical technique that measures changes in blood volume within tissues. It is commonly and increasingly used for in a variety of research and clinical application to assess vascular dynamics and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Marton A. Goda , Peter H. Charlton , Joachim A. Behar

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is the electrical measurement of cardiac activity, whereas Photoplethysmogram (PPG) is the optical measurement of volumetric changes in blood circulation. While both signals are used for heart rate monitoring, from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Pritam Sarkar , Ali Etemad

Seismocardiography (SCG) is a non-invasive method that can be used for cardiac activity monitoring. This paper presents a new electrocardiogram (ECG) independent approach for estimating heart rate (HR) during low and high lung volume (LLV…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-04 Amirtaha Taebi , Andrew J Bomar , Richard H Sandler , Hansen A Mansy

The growing integration of smart environments and low-power computing devices, coupled with mass-market sensor technologies, is driving advancements in remote and non-contact physiological monitoring. However, deploying these systems in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Constantino Álvarez Casado , Sasan Sharifipour , Manuel Lage Cañellas , Nhi Nguyen , Le Nguyen , Miguel Bordallo López

Visible-light cameras can capture subtle physiological biomarkers without physical contact with the subject. We present the Multi-Site Physiological Monitoring (MSPM) dataset, which is the first dataset collected to support the study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jeremy Speth , Nathan Vance , Benjamin Sporrer , Lu Niu , Patrick Flynn , Adam Czajka

With a surge in online medical advising remote monitoring of patient vitals is required. This can be facilitated with the Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) techniques that compute vital signs from facial videos. It involves processing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Amtul Haq Ayesha , Donghao Qiao , Farhana Zulkernine

Heart rate estimation from photoplethysmography (PPG) signals generated by wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness trackers has significant implications for the health and well-being of individuals. Although prior work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Kanav Arora , Girish Narayanswamy , Shwetak Patel , Richard Li

In precision sports such as archery, athletes' performance depends on both biomechanical stability and psychological resilience. Traditional motion analysis systems are often expensive and intrusive, limiting their use in natural training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xianghe Liu , Jiajia Liu , Chuxian Xu , Minghan Wang , Hongbo Peng , Tao Sun , Jiaqi Xu

Objective: Evaluate a method for the estimation of the nocturnal systolic blood pressure (SBP) dip from 24-hour blood pressure trends using a wrist-worn photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor and a deep neural network in free-living individuals,…

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is widely used in wearable health monitoring, yet large PPG foundation models remain difficult to deploy on resource-limited devices. We present PPG-Distill, a knowledge distillation framework that transfers both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Juntong Ni , Saurabh Kataria , Shengpu Tang , Carl Yang , Xiao Hu , Wei Jin

The electrocardiogram (ECG) has always been an important biomedical test to diagnose cardiovascular diseases. Current approaches for ECG monitoring are based on body attached electrodes leading to uncomfortable user experience. Therefore,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Jinbo Chen , Dongheng Zhang , Zhi Wu , Fang Zhou , Qibin Sun , Yan Chen

This paper presents a computational solution that enables continuous cardiac monitoring through cross-modality inference of electrocardiogram (ECG). While some smartwatches now allow users to obtain a 30-second ECG test by tapping a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Yuenan Li , Xin Tian , Qiang Zhu , Min Wu