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Cardiac abnormalities affecting heart rate and rhythm are commonly observed in both healthy and acutely unwell people. Although many of these are benign, they can sometimes indicate a serious health risk. ECG monitors are typically used to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-12 Stewart Whiting , Samuel Moreland , Jason Costello , Glen Colopy , Christopher McCann

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is one of the most widely captured biosignals for clinical prediction tasks, yet PPG-based algorithms are typically trained on small-scale datasets of uncertain quality, which hinders meaningful algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Mohammad Moulaeifard , Philip J. Aston , Peter H. Charlton , Nils Strodthoff

Hearth Rate (HR) monitoring is increasingly performed in wrist-worn devices using low-cost photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors. However, Motion Artifacts (MAs) caused by movements of the subject's arm affect the performance of PPG-based HR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Alessio Burrello , Daniele Jahier Pagliari , Matteo Risso , Simone Benatti , Enrico Macii , Luca Benini , Massimo Poncino

Photoplethysmographic (PPG) measurements are susceptible to motion artifacts (MA) due to movement of the peripheral body parts. In this paper, we present a new approach to identify the MA corrupted PPG beats and then rectify the beat…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-17 Monalisa Singha Roy , Rajarshi Gupta , Jayanta K. Chandra , Kaushik Das Sharma , Arunansu Talukdar

Many remote Heart Rate (HR) measurement methods focus on estimating remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signals from video clips lasting around 10 seconds but often overlook the need for HR estimation from ultra-short video clips. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Pei-Kai Huanga , Ya-Ting Chan , Kuan-Wen Chen , Yen-Chun Chou , Shih-Yu Yang , Chiou-Ting Hsu

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

Purpose. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a non-invasive technique that measures changes in blood flow volume through optical means. Previous research has established the feasibility of PPG peak detection based on the crossover of moving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Cesar Abascal Machado , Victor O. Costa , Cesar Augusto Prior , Cesar Ramos Rodrigues

Respiratory ailments such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia, and lung cancer are life-threatening. Respiration rate (RR) is a vital indicator of the wellness of a patient. Continuous monitoring of RR can…

Opto-physiological monitoring including photoplethysmography (PPG) provides non-invasive cardiac and respiratory measurements, yet motion artefacts (MAs) during physical activity degrade its signal quality and downstream estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Xiaoyu Zheng , Sijung Hu , Vincent Dwyer , Mahsa Derakhshani , Laura Barrett

Despite the population of the noninvasive, economic, comfortable, and easy-to-install photoplethysmography (PPG), it is still lacking a mathematically rigorous and stable algorithm which is able to simultaneously extract from a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-05 Antonio Cicone , Hau-Tieng Wu

The proposed system consists of a two-stage cascade. The first stage performs a rough heartbeat detection while the second stage refines the previous one, improving the temporal localization and also classifying the heartbeats into types S1…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 J. Torre-Cruz , D. Martinez-Munoz , N. Ruiz-Reyes , A. J. Munoz-Montoro , M. Puentes-Chiachio , F. J. Canadas-Quesada

Heartbeat rhythm and heart rate (HR) are important physiological parameters of the human body. This study presents an efficient multi-hierarchical spatio-temporal convolutional network that can quickly estimate remote physiological (rPPG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Bin Li , Panpan Zhang , Jinye Peng , Hong Fu

With the ongoing heart problems of the population worldwide, the medical requirements of the people are expected to increase. Electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the proven to capture the heart response signal to assess the electrical and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Ayan Chatterjee , Sundar Gopalakrishnan , Martin Gerdes , Santiago Martinez , Nibedita Pahari , Pankaj Khatiwada

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) captures cardiac signals from facial videos and is gaining attention for its diverse applications. While deep learning has advanced rPPG estimation, it relies on large, diverse datasets for effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Joaquim Comas , Federico Sukno

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a non-invasive technology that measures changes in blood volume in the microvascular bed of tissue. It is commonly used in medical devices such as pulse oximeters and wrist worn heart rate monitors to monitor…

We present a novel learning-based method that achieves state-of-the-art performance on several heart rate estimation benchmarks extracted from photoplethysmography signals (PPG). We consider the evolution of the heart rate in the context of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Valentin Bieri , Paul Streli , Berken Utku Demirel , Christian Holz

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) measures the variation of the time between consecutive heartbeats and is a major indicator of physical and mental health. Recent research has demonstrated that photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors can be used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yuntong Zhang , Jingye Xu , Mimi Xie , Dakai Zhu , Houbing Song , Wei Wang

Photoplethysmography (PPG) signal comprises physiological information related to cardiorespiratory health. However, while recording, these PPG signals are easily corrupted by motion artifacts and body movements, leading to noise enriched,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Tamaghno Chatterjee , Aayushman Ghosh , Sayan Sarkar

Heart rate monitoring using wrist-type photoplethysmographic (PPG) signals during subjects' intensive exercise is a difficult problem, since the signals are contaminated by extremely strong motion artifacts caused by subjects' hand…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Zhilin Zhang , Zhouyue Pi , Benyuan Liu

Photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal-based blood pressure (BP) estimation is a promising candidate for modern BP measurements, as PPG signals can be easily obtained from wearable devices in a non-invasive manner, allowing quick BP measurement.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-01 Hyeongju Kim , Woo Hyun Kang , Hyeonseung Lee , Nam Soo Kim