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Electrocardiography (ECG) is the clinical standard for cardiac assessment but requires dedicated hardware that does not scale to daily-life monitoring. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is ubiquitous in wearables but lacks ECG-specific diagnostic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Xiaoda Wang , Minxiao Wang , Kaiqiao Han , Defu Cao , Ching Chang , Yidan Shi , Runze Yan , Xiao Luo , Yan Liu , Xiao Hu , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang , Carl Yang

Remote photo-plethysmography (rPPG) uses a camera to estimate a person's heart rate (HR). Similar to how heart rate can provide useful information about a person's vital signs, insights about the underlying physio/psychological conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Amogh Gudi , Marian Bittner , Jan van Gemert

Digital twins for 1D bio-signals enable real-time monitoring of physiological processes of a person, which enables early disease diagnosis and personalized treatment. This work introduces a novel non-contact method for digital twin (DT)…

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

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

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

This paper presents a novel approach based on pulse transit time (PTT) for the estimation of blood pressure (BP). In order to achieve this goal, a data acquisition hardware is designed for high-resolution sampling of phonocardiogram (PCG)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-08 Amirhossein Esmaili , Mohammad Kachuee , Mahdi Shabany

Blood pressure (BP) changes are linked to individual health status in both clinical and non-clinical settings. This study developed a deep learning model to classify systolic (SBP), diastolic (DBP), and mean (MBP) BP changes using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Jingyuan Hong , Manasi Nandi , Weiwei Jin , Jordi Alastruey

We present a lightweight neural model for remote heart rate estimation focused on the efficient spatio-temporal learning of facial photoplethysmography (PPG) based on i) modelling of PPG dynamics by combinations of multiple convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Joaquim Comas , Adria Ruiz , Federico Sukno

Photoplethysmography (PPG)-based foundation models are gaining traction due to the widespread use of PPG in biosignal monitoring and their potential to generalize across diverse health applications. In this paper, we introduce Pulse-PPG,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Mithun Saha , Maxwell A. Xu , Wanting Mao , Sameer Neupane , James M. Rehg , Santosh Kumar

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) measurement enables non-contact physiological monitoring but suffers from accuracy degradation under head motion and illumination changes. Existing deep learning methods are mostly heuristic and lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Bo Zhao , Dan Guo , Junzhe Cao , Yong Xu , Bochao Zou , Tao Tan , Yue Sun , Zitong Yu

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

Telehealth has the potential to offset the high demand for help during public health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) - the problem of non-invasively estimating blood volume variations in the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Ambareesh Revanur , Zhihua Li , Umur A. Ciftci , Lijun Yin , Laszlo A. Jeni

Our research introduces a groundbreaking approach to stress classification through Photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals. By combining Continuous Wavelet Transformation (CWT) with the proven VGG16 classifier, our method enhances stress…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Yasin Hasanpoor , Bahram Tarvirdizadeh , Khalil Alipour , Mohammad Ghamari

In this paper, the relation between electrocardiogram (ECG) and photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals is studied, and the waveform of ECG is inferred via the PPG signals. In order to address this inverse problem, a transform is proposed to map…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Qiang Zhu , Xin Tian , Chau-Wai Wong , Min Wu

Background: A smartphone is a promising tool for daily cardiovascular measurement and mental stress monitoring. A smartphone camera-based PhotoPlethysmoGraphy (PPG) and a low-cost thermal camera can be used to create cheap, convenient and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 Youngjun Cho , Simon J. Julier , Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze

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

Objective: Evaluate a method for the estimation of the nocturnal systolic blood pressure (SBP) dip from 24-hour blood pressure trends using a wrist-worn photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor and a deep neural network in free-living individuals,…

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) offers a novel approach to noninvasive monitoring of vital signs, such as respiratory rate, utilizing a camera. Although several supervised and self-supervised methods have been proposed, they often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Banafsheh Adami , Nima Karimian

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