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Electrocardiograms (ECGs) and photoplethysmograms (PPGs) are generally used to monitor an individual's cardiovascular health. In clinical settings, ECGs and fingertip PPGs are the main signals used for assessing cardiovascular health, but…

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Unobservable physiological signals enhance biometric authentication systems. Photoplethysmography (PPG) signals are convenient owning to its ease of measurement and are usually well protected against remote adversaries in authentication.…

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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a prevalent cardiac arrhythmia associated with significant health ramifications, including an elevated susceptibility to ischemic stroke, heart disease, and heightened mortality. Photoplethysmography (PPG) has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Cheng Ding , Ran Xiao , Weijia Wang , Elizabeth Holdsworth , Xiao Hu

Background: Sleep staging is a fundamental component in the diagnosis of sleep disorders and the management of sleep health. Traditionally, this analysis is conducted in clinical settings and involves a time-consuming scoring procedure.…

A task-specific model trained on 212,231 UK Biobank subjects to predict vascular age from PPG (AI-PPG Age) fails on a different clinical population: predictions collapse to a narrow 38-67 year range regardless of true age. Meanwhile, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 N. Brag

Accurate sleep stage classification is crucial for diagnosing sleep disorders and evaluating sleep quality. While polysomnography (PSG) remains the gold standard, photoplethysmography (PPG) is more practical due to its affordability and…

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

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables contactless measurement of heart rate and other vital signs by analyzing subtle color variations in facial skin induced by cardiac pulsation. Current rPPG methods are mainly based on either…

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Sleep is a crucial aspect of our overall health and well-being. It plays a vital role in regulating our mental and physical health, impacting our mood, memory, and cognitive function to our physical resilience and immune system. The…

Unaddressed pain in neonates can lead to adverse effects, including delayed development and slower weight gain, emphasising the need for more objective and reliable pain assessment methods. Hence, automated methods using behavioural and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ashutosh Dhamaniya , Anup Kumar Gupta , Trishna Saikia , Puneet Gupta

Non-contact remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) technology enables heart rate measurement from facial videos. However, existing network models still face challenges in accu racy, robustness, and generalization capability under complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Kang Cen , Chang-Hong Fu , Hong Hong

Continuous blood pressure (BP) estimation via photoplethysmography (PPG) remains a significant challenge, particularly in providing comprehensive cardiovascular insights for hypertensive complications. This study presents a novel…

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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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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

Camera-based contactless photoplethysmography refers to a set of popular techniques for contactless physiological measurement. The current state-of-the-art neural models are typically trained in a supervised manner using videos accompanied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Xin Liu , Yuntao Wang , Sinan Xie , Xiaoyu Zhang , Zixian Ma , Daniel McDuff , Shwetak Patel

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), which aims at measuring heart activities and physiological signals from facial video without any contact, has great potential in many applications (e.g., remote healthcare and affective computing). Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Zitong Yu , Yuming Shen , Jingang Shi , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip Torr , Guoying Zhao

PPG based heart rate (HR) monitoring has recently attracted much attention with the advent of wearable devices such as smart watches and smart bands. However, due to severe motion artifacts (MA) caused by wristband stumbles, PPG based HR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Mahmoud Essalat , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Farokh Marvasti

Foundation models, especially those using transformers as backbones, have gained significant popularity, particularly in language and language-vision tasks. However, large foundation models are typically trained on high-quality data, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Cheng Ding , Zhicheng Guo , Zhaoliang Chen , Randall J Lee , Cynthia Rudin , Xiao Hu

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

The generation of high-quality medical time series data is essential for advancing healthcare diagnostics and safeguarding patient privacy. Specifically, synthesizing realistic phonocardiogram (PCG) signals offers significant potential as a…

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