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Ischemic heart disease is the highest cause of mortality globally each year. This not only puts a massive strain on the lives of those affected but also on the public healthcare systems. To understand the dynamics of the healthy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Eoin Brophy , Maarten De Vos , Geraldine Boylan , Tomas Ward

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide, with blood pressure serving as a crucial indicator. Arterial blood pressure (ABP) waveforms provide continuous pressure measurements throughout the cardiac cycle and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Lingfeng Li , Xue-Cheng Tai , Raymond Chan

Precise management of patients with cerebral diseases often requires intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring, which is highly invasive and requires a specialized ICU setting. The ability to noninvasively estimate ICP is highly compelling as…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Jian-Xun Wang , Xiao Hu , Shawn C. Shadden

Physiological responses to pain have received increasing attention among researchers for developing an automated pain recognition sensing system. Though less explored, Blood Volume Pulse (BVP) is one of the candidate physiological measures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Fatemeh Pouromran , Yingzi Lin , Sagar Kamarthi

Recently, the wearable and non-invasive blood glucose estimation approach has been proposed. However, due to the unreliability of the acquisition device, the presence of the noise and the variations of the acquisition environments, the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Yiting Wei , Bingo Wing-Kuen Ling , Danni Chen , Yuheng Dai , Qing Liu

Micro-panel data are collected and analysed in many research and industry areas. Cluster analysis of micro-panel data is an unsupervised learning exploratory method identifying subgroup clusters in a data set which include homogeneous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-17 Lukas Sobisek , Maria Stachova , Jan Fojtik

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) represent significant global health challenges today, necessitating regular and reliable monitoring to enable early intervention. Phonocardiogram (PCG) signals present a promising non-invasive method for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Abdul Ahad Mamun , Utsab Saha , Md Hasibul Hasan , Shahed Ahmed , MD Jahin Alam

Continuous blood pressure (BP) estimation via photoplethysmography (PPG) remains a significant challenge, particularly in providing comprehensive cardiovascular insights for hypertensive complications. This study presents a novel…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Yaowen Zhang , Libera Fresiello , Peter H. Veltink , Dirk W. Donker , Ying Wang

Photoplethysmographic (PPG) signals offer diagnostic potential beyond heart rate analysis or blood oxygen level monitoring. In the recent past, research focused extensively on non-invasive PPG-based approaches to blood pressure (BP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Fabian Schrumpf , Paul Rudi Serdack , Mirco Fuchs

Owing to the recent advancements in wearable devices for health care, the importance of BP estimation without cuffs increases. Cuff technologies are inappropriate for continuous BP measurement due to their inconvenient usage, invasive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Vaibhav Gollapalli , Aniruth Ananthanarayanan

Photoplethysmography (PPG)-based blood pressure (BP) estimation is a challenging task, particularly on resource-constrained wearable devices. However, fully on-board processing is desirable to ensure user data confidentiality. Recent deep…

Blood pressure (BP) measurement is crucial for daily health assessment. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), which extracts pulse waves from face videos captured by a camera, has the potential to enable convenient BP measurement without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yusuke Akamatsu , Akinori F. Ebihara , Terumi Umematsu

Hypertension, a leading contributor to cardiovascular morbidity, underscores the need for accurate and continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring. Photoplethysmography (PPG) presents a promising approach to this end. However, the precision…

Accurate and generalizable blood pressure (BP) estimation is vital for the early detection and management of cardiovascular diseases. In this study, we enforce subject-level data splitting on a public multi-wavelength photoplethysmography…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Zequan Liang , Ruoyu Zhang , Wei Shao , Mahdi Pirayesh Shirazi Nejad , Ehsan Kourkchi , Setareh Rafatirad , Houman Homayoun

Anemia is a prevalent hematological disorder that requires frequent hemoglobin monitoring for early diagnosis and effective management. Conventional hemoglobin assessment relies on invasive blood sampling, limiting its suitability for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Garima Sahu , Poorva Verma , Nachiket Tapas

Cardiovascular diseases are one of the most severe causes of mortality, taking a heavy toll of lives annually throughout the world. The continuous monitoring of blood pressure seems to be the most viable option, but this demands an invasive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Nabil Ibtehaz , Sakib Mahmud , Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury , Amith Khandakar , Mohamed Arselene Ayari , Anas Tahir , M. Sohel Rahman

In unsupervised feature learning, sample specificity based methods ignore the inter-class information, which deteriorates the discriminative capability of representation models. Clustering based methods are error-prone to explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yifei Zhang , Chang Liu , Yu Zhou , Wei Wang , Weiping Wang , Qixiang Ye

The use of observed wearable sensor data (e.g., photoplethysmograms [PPG]) to infer health measures (e.g., glucose level or blood pressure) is a very active area of research. Such technology can have a significant impact on health…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Suril Mehta , Nipun Kwatra , Mohit Jain , Daniel McDuff

Medical and social sciences demand sampling techniques which are robust, reliable, replicable and have the least dissimilarity between the samples obtained. Majority of the applications of sampling use randomized sampling, albeit with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Megha Mishra , Chandrasekaran Anirudh Bhardwaj , Kalyani Desikan

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…