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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…

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This work explores the feasibility of employing ultrasound (US) US technology in a wrist-worn IoT device for low-power, high-fidelity heart-rate (HR) extraction. US offers deep tissue penetration and can monitor pulsatile arterial blood…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Marco Giordano , Christoph Leitner , Christian Vogt , Luca Benini , Michele Magno

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

Reflective photoplethysmography (PPG) has become the default sensing technique in wearable devices to monitor cardiac activity via a person's heart rate (HR). However, PPG-based HR estimates can be substantially impacted by factors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Manuel Meier , Berken Utku Demirel , Christian Holz

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…

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

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…

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

The task of heart rate estimation using photoplethysmographic (PPG) signal is challenging due to the presence of various motion artifacts in the recorded signals. In this paper, a fast algorithm for heart rate estimation based on modified…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-28 Mohammad Tariqul Islam , Sk. Tanvir Ahmed , Celia Shahnaz , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is widely used in wearable health monitoring, but its reliability is often degraded by noise and motion artifacts, limiting downstream applications such as heart rate (HR) estimation. This paper presents a deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 I Chiu , Yu-Tung Liu , Kuan-Chen Wang , Hung-Yu Wei , Yu Tsao

The vast majority of cardiovascular diseases may be preventable if early signs and risk factors are detected. Cardiovascular monitoring with body-worn sensor devices like sensor patches allows for the detection of such signs while…

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)…

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The convergence of accelerating human spaceflight ambitions and critical terrestrial health monitoring demands is driving unprecedented requirements for reliable, real-time feature extraction on extremely resource-constrained wearable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Kazi Mohammad Abidur Rahman , Davis Rakhshan , Philipp Lütke , Laura Harms , Ulf Kulau

Heart-rate estimation is a fundamental feature of modern wearable devices. In this paper we propose a machine intelligent approach for heart-rate estimation from electrocardiogram (ECG) data collected using wearable devices. The novelty of…

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and associated with a high risk for serious conditions like stroke. The use of wearable devices embedded with automatic and timely AF assessment from electrocardiograms (ECGs)…

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Recent advances in wearable technology have enabled the continuous monitoring of vital physiological signals, essential for predictive modeling and early detection of extreme physiological events. Among these physiological signals, heart…

Applications · Statistics 2025-08-13 Vaibhav Gupta , Maria Maleshkova

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

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) monitors heart rate without requiring physical contact, which allows for a wide variety of applications. Deep learning-based rPPG have demonstrated superior performance over the traditional approaches in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Ze Yang , Haofei Wang , Feng Lu

Low-power sensing technologies, such as wearables, have emerged in the healthcare domain since they enable continuous and non-invasive monitoring of physiological signals. In order to endow such devices with clinical value, classical signal…

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