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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

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…

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

Blood pressure (BP) is a key indicator of cardiovascular health. As hypertension remains a global cause of morbidity and mortality, accurate, continuous, and non-invasive BP monitoring is therefore of paramount importance.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Bálint Tóth , Dominik Senti , Thorir Mar Ingolfsson , Jeffrey Zweidler , Alexandre Elsig , Luca Benini , Yawei Li

This paper shows how the dynamics of the PhotoPlethysmoGraphic (PPG) signal, an easily accessible biological signal from which valuable diagnostic information can be extracted, of young and healthy individuals performs at different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Javier de Pedro-Carracedo , David Fuentes-Jimenez , Ana M. Ugena , Ana P. Gonzalez-Marcos

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

Background and Objectives: In a significant portion of surgeries, blood pressure (BP) is often measured non-invasively in an intermittent manner. This practice has a risk of missing clinically relevant BP changes between two adjacent…

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 this work, we present the Senbiosys blood pressure monitoring algorithm (SB-BPM) that solely requires a photoplethysmography (PPG) signal. The technology is based on pulse wave analysis (PWA) of PPG signals retrieved from different body…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-22 Serj Haddad , Assim Boukhayma , Antonino Caizzone

PPG-based Blood Pressure (BP) estimation is a challenging biosignal processing task for low-power devices such as wearables. State-of-the-art Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) trained for this task implement either a PPG-to-BP signal-to-signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Alessio Burrello , Francesco Carlucci , Giovanni Pollo , Xiaying Wang , Massimo Poncino , Enrico Macii , Luca Benini , Daniele Jahier Pagliari

Subtle periodic signals, such as blood volume pulse and respiration, can be extracted from RGB video, enabling noncontact health monitoring at low cost. Advancements in remote pulse estimation -- or remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) -- are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jeremy Speth , Nathan Vance , Patrick Flynn , Adam Czajka

Physiological responses are nowadays widely used to recognize the affective state of subjects in real-life scenarios. However, these data are intrinsically subject-dependent, making machine learning techniques for data classification not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-24 Francesca Gasparini , Alessandra Grossi , Marta Giltri , Stefania Bandini

Deep learning based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has shown promising results in various vision-based applications, recently also in camera-based vital signs monitoring. The CNN-based Photoplethysmography (PPG) extraction has, so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Qi Zhan , Wenjin Wang , Gerard de Haan

Electrophysiological observation plays a major role in epilepsy evaluation. However, human interpretation of brain signals is subjective and prone to misdiagnosis. Automating this process, especially seizure detection relying on scalp-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-06 David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Clinton Fookes , Kien Nguyen , Sridha Sridharan

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

This study explores extended feature space that is indicative of blood pressure (BP) changes for better estimation of continuous BP in an unobtrusive way. A total of 222 features were extracted from noninvasively acquired electrocardiogram…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-28 Xiaorong Ding , Bryan P Yan , Yuan-Ting Zhang , Jing Liu , Peng Su , Ni Zhao

Diabetes is a prevalent chronic condition that compromises the health of millions of people worldwide. Minimally invasive methods are needed to prevent and control diabetes but most devices for measuring glucose levels are invasive and not…

Hypertension is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The ability to diagnose and treat hypertension in the ambulatory population is hindered by limited access and poor adherence to current methods of monitoring blood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Theodore Curran , Chengqian Ma , Xin Liu , Daniel McDuff , Girish Narayanswamy , George Stergiou , Shwetak Patel , Eugene Yang

Continuous monitoring of blood pressure (BP) and hemodynamic parameters such as peripheral resistance (R) and arterial compliance (C) are critical for early vascular dysfunction detection. While photoplethysmography (PPG) wearables has…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Yaowen Zhang , Libera Fresiello , Peter H. Veltink , Dirk W. Donker , Ying Wang

In this paper we propose a robust approach to model photoplethysmography (PPG) signals. After decomposing the signal into two components, we focus the analysis on the pulsatile part, related to cardiac information. The goal is to enable a…

Applications · Statistics 2019-05-28 M. Regis , L. M. Eerikäinen , R. Haakma , E. R. van den Heuvel , P. Serra