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Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-12 Stewart Whiting , Samuel Moreland , Jason Costello , Glen Colopy , Christopher McCann

Traditional diagnosis of aortic valve disease relies on echocardiography, but its cost and required expertise limit its use in large-scale early screening. Photoplethysmography (PPG) has emerged as a promising screening modality due to its…

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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

Smart wearables enable continuous tracking of established biomarkers such as heart rate, heart rate variability, and blood oxygen saturation via photoplethysmography (PPG). Beyond these metrics, PPG waveforms contain richer physiological…

Advances in wearable computing and AI have increased interest in leveraging PPG for health monitoring over the past decade. One of the biggest challenges in developing health algorithms based on such biosignals is the sparsity of clinical…

We investigated the beat-to-beat fluctuation of the photoplethysmography (PPG) waveform. The motivation is that morphology variability extracted from the arterial blood pressure (ABP) has been found to correlate with baseline condition and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-20 Yu-Chieh Ho , Te-Sheng Lin , She-Chih Wang , Chen-Shi Chang , Yu-Ting Lin

Photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals are easily contaminated by motion artifacts in real-world settings, despite their widespread use in Internet-of-Things (IoT) based wearable and smart health devices for cardiovascular health monitoring. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Yali Zheng , Chen Wu , Peizheng Cai , Zhiqiang Zhong , Hongda Huang , Yuqi Jiang

This study introduces a novel application of a Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) model tailored for photoplethysmography (PPG) signals, serving as a foundation model for various downstream tasks. Adapting the standard GPT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zhaoliang Chen , Cheng Ding , Saurabh Kataria , Runze Yan , Minxiao Wang , Randall Lee , Xiao Hu

We present for the first time a novel method that utilizes the chest movement-modulated radio signals for non-contact acquisition of the photoplethysmography (PPG) signal. Under the proposed method, a software-defined radio (SDR) exposes…

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Continuous photoplethysmography (PPG)-based blood pressure monitoring is necessary for healthcare and fitness applications. In Artificial Intelligence (AI), signal classification levels with the machine and deep learning arrangements need…

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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…

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In this paper, we propose a system that enables photoplethysmogram (PPG)-based authentication by using a smartphone camera. PPG signals are obtained by recording a video from the camera as users are resting their finger on top of the camera…

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This paper presents a computational solution that enables continuous cardiac monitoring through cross-modality inference of electrocardiogram (ECG). While some smartwatches now allow users to obtain a 30-second ECG test by tapping a…

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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

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

Analyzing and predicting brain aging is essential for early prognosis and accurate diagnosis of cognitive diseases. The technique of neuroimaging, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), provides a noninvasive means of observing the aging…

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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…