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Hypertension is a medical condition characterized by high blood pressure, and classifying it into its various stages is crucial to managing the disease. In this project, a novel method is proposed for classifying stages of hypertension…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Graham Frederick , Yaswant T , Brintha Therese A

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

Blood Pressure (BP) is one of the four primary vital signs indicating the status of the body's vital (life-sustaining) functions. BP is difficult to continuously monitor using a sphygmomanometer (i.e. a blood pressure cuff), especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Ali Tazarv , Marco Levorato

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 ability to reliably estimate physiological signals from video is a powerful tool in low-cost, pre-clinical health monitoring. In this work we propose a new approach to remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) - the measurement of blood volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 John Gideon , Simon Stent

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

Accurate classification of sleep stages from less obtrusive sensor measurements such as the electrocardiogram (ECG) or photoplethysmogram (PPG) could enable important applications in sleep medicine. Existing approaches to this problem have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Jonathan F. Carter , Lionel Tarassenko

Negative emotions are linked to the onset of neurodegenerative diseases and dementia, yet they are often difficult to detect through observation. Physiological signals from wearable devices offer a promising noninvasive method for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Muhammad Irfan , Anum Nawaz , Ayse Kosal Bulbul , Riku Klen , Abdulhamit Subasi , Tomi Westerlund , Wei Chen

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a non-contact method for detecting physiological signals based on facial videos, holding high potential in various applications. Due to the periodicity nature of rPPG signals, the long-range dependency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Bochao Zou , Zizheng Guo , Jiansheng Chen , Junbao Zhuo , Weiran Huang , Huimin Ma

Heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) are important vital signs for human physical and mental health. Recent research has demonstrated that photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors can infer HR and HRV. However, it is difficult to find…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Jingye Xu , Yuntong Zhang , Wei Wang , Mimi Xie , Dakai Zhu

Recent studies showed that Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors embedded in wearable devices can estimate heart rate (HR) with high accuracy. However, despite of prior research efforts, applying PPG sensor based HR estimation to embedded…

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

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

Background: Studies have shown the potential adverse health effects, ranging from headaches to cardiovascular disease, associated with long-term negative emotions and chronic stress. Since many indicators of stress are imperceptible to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Joe Li , Peter Washington

In order to obtain insights into the feasibility of replacing ECG-guided triggering in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by a system based on video photoplethysmography (PPG), PPG and ECG data were collected from volunteers in an MRI…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-19 A. C. den Brinker , H. H. Der Sarkissian , J. H. Wülbern , B. Balmaekers , M. Padalko , J. Sénégas , R. Springorum , C. Possanzini

Multi-channel photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors have found widespread adoption in wearable devices for monitoring cardiac health. Channels thereby serve different functions -- whereas green is commonly used for metrics such as heart rate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Manuel Meier , Berken Utku Demirel , Christian Holz

Cuffless blood pressure screening based on easily acquired photoplethysmography (PPG) signals offers a practical pathway toward scalable cardiovascular health assessment. Despite rapid progress, existing PPG-based blood pressure estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Neville Mathew , Yidan Shen , Renjie Hu , Maham Rahimi , George Zouridakis

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a ubiquitous physiological measurement that detects beat-to-beat pulsatile blood volume changes and hence has a potential for monitoring cardiovascular conditions, particularly in ambulatory settings. A PPG…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Cheng Ding , Ran Xiao , Duc Do , David Scott Lee , Shadi Kalantarian , Randall J Lee , Xiao Hu

Introduction: Sleep staging is an essential component in the diagnosis of sleep disorders and management of sleep health. It is traditionally measured in a clinical setting and requires a labor-intensive labeling process. We hypothesize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Kevin Kotzen , Peter H. Charlton , Sharon Salabi , Lea Amar , Amir Landesberg , Joachim A. Behar

Camera-based monitoring of vital signs, also known as imaging photoplethysmography (iPPG), has seen applications in driver-monitoring, perfusion assessment in surgical settings, affective computing, and more. iPPG involves sensing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Vineet R Shenoy , Suhas Lohit , Hassan Mansour , Rama Chellappa , Tim K. Marks

There are still many challenges of emotion recognition using physiological data despite the substantial progress made recently. In this paper, we attempted to address two major challenges. First, in order to deal with the sparsely-labeled…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Feng Zhou , Tao Chen , Baiying Lei