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Monitoring the activity of the heart is important for diagnosing and preventing cardiovascular diseases. The electrocardiogram (ECG) is the gold standard for diagnosing such diseases. It monitors the heart's electrical activity, and while…

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Wearable devices such as smartwatches are becoming increasingly popular tools for objectively monitoring physical activity in free-living conditions. To date, research has primarily focused on the purely supervised task of human activity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Dimitris Spathis , Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo , Soren Brage , Nicholas J. Wareham , Cecilia Mascolo

To investigate whether a deep learning model can detect Covid-19 from disruptions in the human body's physiological (heart rate) and rest-activity rhythms (rhythmic dysregulation) caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. We propose CovidRhythm, a…

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Step-counting has been widely implemented in wrist-worn devices and is accepted by end users as a quantitative indicator of everyday exercise. However, existing counting approach (mostly on wrist-worn setup) lacks robustness and thus…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Sizhen Bian , Rakita Strahinja , Philipp Schilk , Clénin Marc-André , Silvano Cortesi , Elio Reinschmidt , Kanika Dheman , Michele Magno

Vital signs have been essential clinical measures. Among these, body temperature (BT) and heart rate (HR) are particularly significant, and numerous studies explored their association in hospitalized adults and children. However, a lack of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Emilie Lu , Thanh-Dung Le

The ability to track a user's arm pose could be valuable in a wide range of applications, including fitness, rehabilitation, augmented reality input, life logging, and context-aware assistants. Unfortunately, this capability is not readily…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Nathan DeVrio , Vimal Mollyn , Chris Harrison

Measures of Activity of Daily Living (ADL) are an important indicator of overall health but difficult to measure in-clinic. Automated and accurate human activity recognition (HAR) using wrist-worn accelerometers enables practical and cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Niranjan Sridhar , Lance Myers

Alterations in Heart Rate (HR) and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) can reflect autonomic dysfunction associated with neurodegeneration. We investigate the influence of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) on HR and its variability measures in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Anjo Xavier , Sneha Noble , Justin Joseph , Thomas Gregor Issac

Heart rate variability (HRV) is a practical and noninvasive measure of autonomic nervous system activity, which plays an essential role in cardiovascular health. However, using HRV to assess physiology status is challenging. Even in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Jiacheng Zhu , Gregory Darnell , Agni Kumar , Ding Zhao , Bo Li , Xuanlong Nguyen , Shirley You Ren

Heart rate is an important vital sign used in the diagnosis of many medical conditions. Conventionally, heart rate is measured using a medical device such as pulse oxymeter. Physiological parameters such as heart rate bear a correlation to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Mohammed Usman , Zeeshan Ahmad , Mohd Wajid

The developed system using a mobile electronic device for monitoring and warnings of heart problems, when the heart rate is outside the nominal range, which ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute. Also, a system has been developed to save…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Luis Chuquimarca , Dahyana Roca , Washington Torres , Luis Amaya , Jaime Orozco , David Sánchez

Research in mental health has implicated sleep pathologies with depression. However, the gold standard for sleep assessment, polysomnography, is not suitable for long-term, continuous, monitoring of daily sleep, and methods such as sleep…

Tracking body pose on-the-go could have powerful uses in fitness, mobile gaming, context-aware virtual assistants, and rehabilitation. However, users are unlikely to buy and wear special suits or sensor arrays to achieve this end. Instead,…

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Sepsis is a significant cause of early mortality, high healthcare costs, and disability-adjusted life years. Digital interventions like continuous cardiac monitoring can help detect early warning signs and facilitate effective…

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Cost-effective wireless electrocardiograms (ECGs) enable long-term and scalable monitoring of cardiac patients in their home and work environments. Because they offer greater freedom of movement, they are also suitable for investigating the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Yalemzerf Getnet , Waltenegus Dargie

This Data Descriptor presents a fully open, multi-modal dataset for estimating vertical ground reaction force (vGRF) from consumer-grade Apple Watch sensors with laboratory force plate ground truth. Ten healthy adults aged 26--41 years…

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This study explores the biological rhythms of domestic cats. Twelve cats from the AVA shelter in Cuy-Saint-Fiacre, France, participated in the experimental study, wearing collars equipped with IMU sensors for about three weeks. Recorded…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Alix Enault , Alia Chebly , Sarah Jeannin , Thierry Legou , Leslie Moinet , Thierry Bedossa

Heartbeat interval can be detected from ballistocardiogram (BCG) signals in a non-contact manner. Conventional methods achieved heartbeat detection from different perspectives, where template matching (TM) and deep learning (DL) were based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Dongli Cai , Xihe Chen , Yaosheng Chen , Hong Xian , Baoxian Yu , Han Zhang

The human ear offers a unique opportunity for cardiac monitoring due to its physiological and practical advantages. However, existing earable solutions require additional hardware and complex processing, posing challenges for commercial…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yongjian Fu , Ke Sun , Ruyao Wang , Xinyi Li , Ju Ren , Yaoxue Zhang , Xinyu Zhang

The use of accurate and reliable open-source human activity recognition (HAR) models on passively collected wrist-accelerometer data is essential in large-scale epidemiological studies that investigate the association between physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Aidan Acquah , Shing Chan , Aiden Doherty