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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

Objective. Wearable devices with embedded photoplethysmography (PPG) enable continuous non-invasive monitoring of cardiac activity, offering a promising strategy to reduce the global burden of cardiovascular diseases. However, monitoring…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Giulio Basso , Xi Long , Reinder Haakma , Rik Vullings

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) offers a state-of-the-art, non-contact methodology for estimating human pulse by analyzing facial videos. Despite its potential, rPPG methods can be susceptible to various artifacts, such as noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Nhi Nguyen , Le Nguyen , Constantino Álvarez Casado , Olli Silvén , Miguel Bordallo López

This paper considers the problem of casual heart rate tracking during intensive physical exercise using simultaneous 2 channel photoplethysmographic (PPG) and 3 dimensional (3D) acceleration signals recorded from wrist. This is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Ehsan Asadi , Mohsen Eskandari , Shahrzad Kiani , Farrokh Marvasti

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

With the growing percentage of elderly people and care home admissions, there is an urgent need for the development of fall detection and fall prevention technologies. This work presents, for the first time, the use of machine learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Robbie Maccay , Roshan Weerasekera

Amongst all medical biometric traits, Photoplethysmograph (PPG) is the easiest to acquire. PPG records the blood volume change with just combination of Light Emitting Diode and Photodiode from any part of the body. With IoT and smart homes'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Umang Yadav , Sherif N Abbas , Dimitrios Hatzinakos

Smart watches and other wearable devices are equipped with photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors for monitoring heart rate and other aspects of cardiovascular health. However, PPG signals collected from such devices are susceptible to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Pranay Jain , Cheng Ding , Cynthia Rudin , Xiao Hu

Photoplethysmogram (PPG) is increasingly used to provide monitoring of the cardiovascular system under ambulatory conditions. Wearable devices like smartwatches use PPG to allow long term unobtrusive monitoring of heart rate in free living…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Shyam A , Vignesh Ravichandran , Preejith S. P , Jayaraj Joseph , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Mechanomyography (MMG) is a promising tool for measuring muscle activity in the field but its sensitivity to motion artifacts limits its application. In this study, we proposed an adaptative filtering method for MMG accelerometers based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Matthieu Correa , Nicolas Vignais , Isabelle A. Siegler , Maxime Projetti

Photoplethysmography (PPG) signals, typically acquired from wearable devices, hold significant potential for continuous fitness-health monitoring. In particular, heart conditions that manifest in rare and subtle deviating heart patterns may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Ramin Ghorbani , Marcel J. T. Reinders , David M. J. Tax

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a cost-effective and non-invasive technique that utilizes optical methods to measure cardiac physiology. PPG has become increasingly popular in health monitoring and is used in various commercial and clinical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Khuong Vo , Mostafa El-Khamy , Yoojin Choi

Wearable measurements, such as those obtained by photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensors are highly susceptible to motion artifacts and noise, affecting cardiovascular measures. Chest-acquired PPG signals are especially vulnerable, with signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Sara Maria Pagotto , Federico Tognoni , Matteo Rossi , Dario Bovio , Caterina Salito , Luca Mainardi , Pietro Cerveri

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

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

Hypertension is a potentially unsafe health ailment, which can be indicated directly from the Blood pressure (BP). Hypertension always leads to other health complications. Continuous monitoring of BP is very important; however, cuff-based…

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a method for measuring a subjects heart rate remotely using a camera. Factors such as subject movement, ambient light level, makeup etc. complicate such measurements by distorting the observed pulse.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Alexey Protopopov

Video-based remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) has emerged as a promising technology for non-contact vital sign monitoring, especially under controlled conditions. However, the accurate measurement of vital signs in real-world scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Nhi Nguyen , Le Nguyen , Honghan Li , Miguel Bordallo López , Constantino Álvarez Casado

We develop an algorithm that accurately detects Atrial Fibrillation (AF) episodes from photoplethysmograms (PPG) recorded in ambulatory free-living conditions. We collect and annotate a dataset containing more than 4000 hours of PPG…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-11-29 Maxime Voisin , Yichen Shen , Alireza Aliamiri , Anand Avati , Awni Hannun , Andrew Ng

Accurate extraction of heart rate from photoplethysmography (PPG) signals remains challenging due to motion artifacts and signal degradation. Although deep learning methods trained as a data-driven inference problem offer promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Christodoulos Kechris , Jonathan Dan , Jose Miranda , David Atienza