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Cardiovascular disease has become one of the most significant threats endangering human life and health. Recently, Electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring has been transformed into remote cardiac monitoring by Holter surveillance. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Peng Wang , Zihuai Lin , Xucun Yan , Zijiao Chen , Ming Ding , Yang Song , Lu Meng

We develop an algorithm that accurately detects Atrial Fibrillation (AF) episodes from photoplethysmograms (PPG) recorded in ambulatory free-living conditions. We collect and annotate a dataset containing more than 4000 hours of PPG…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-11-29 Maxime Voisin , Yichen Shen , Alireza Aliamiri , Anand Avati , Awni Hannun , Andrew Ng

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

Wearable devices enable theoretically continuous, longitudinal monitoring of physiological measurements like step count, energy expenditure, and heart rate. Although the classification of abnormal cardiac rhythms such as atrial fibrillation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Jessica Torres Soto , Euan Ashley

Photoplethsmography (PPG)-based individual identification aiming at recognizing humans via intrinsic cardiovascular activities has raised extensive attention due to its high security and resistance to mimicry. However, this kind of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Riling Wei , Hanjie Chen , Kelu Yao , Chuanguang Yang , Jun Wang , Chao Li

Wearable foundation models have the potential to transform digital health by learning transferable representations from large-scale biosignals collected in everyday settings. While recent progress has been made in large-scale pretraining,…

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a cost-effective and non-invasive technique that utilizes optical methods to measure cardiac physiology. PPG has become increasingly popular in health monitoring and is used in various commercial and clinical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Khuong Vo , Mostafa El-Khamy , Yoojin Choi

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…

In this paper we study the prediction of heart rate from acceleration using a wrist worn wearable. Although existing photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate sensors provide reliable measurements, they use considerably more energy than…

Physical activity (PA) is an important risk factor for many health outcomes. Wearable-devices such as accelerometers are increasingly used in biomedical studies to understand the associations between PA and health outcomes. Statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-08 Sneha Jadhav , Carmen D. Tekwe , Yuanyuan Luan

Heart rate (HR) estimation from photoplethysmography (PPG) signals is a key feature of modern wearable devices for health and wellness monitoring. While deep learning models show promise, their performance relies on the availability of…

Biometric authentication prospered because of its convenient use and security. Early generations of biometric mechanisms suffer from spoofing attacks. Recently, unobservable physiological signals (e.g., Electroencephalogram,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Lin Li , Chao Chen , Lei Pan , Leo Yu Zhang , Zhifeng Wang , Jun Zhang , Yang Xiang

Recent studies showed that Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors embedded in wearable devices can estimate heart rate (HR) with high accuracy. However, despite of prior research efforts, applying PPG sensor based HR estimation to embedded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yuntong Zhang , Jingye Xu , Mimi Xie , Wei Wang , Keying Ye , Jing Wang , Dakai Zhu

Time-series foundation models excel at tasks like forecasting across diverse data types by leveraging informative waveform representations. Wearable sensing data, however, pose unique challenges due to their variability in patterns and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Yunfei Luo , Yuliang Chen , Asif Salekin , Tauhidur Rahman

Electrocardiography (ECG), an electrical measurement which captures cardiac activities, is the gold standard for diagnosing cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, ECG is infeasible for continuous cardiac monitoring due to its requirement…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Ella Lan

The aim of this project is to develop a new wireless powered wearable ECG monitoring device. The main goal of the project is to provide a wireless, small-sized ECG monitoring device that can be worn for a long period of time by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Ruihua Wang , Mingtong Chen , Zhengbao Yang

Much of the information of breathing is contained within the photoplethysmography (PPG) signal, through changes in venous blood flow, heart rate and stroke volume. We aim to leverage this fact, by employing a novel deep learning framework…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Harry J. Davies , Danilo P. Mandic

The growing demand for continuous physiological monitoring and human-machine interaction in real-world settings calls for wearable platforms that are flexible, low-power, and capable of on-device intelligence. This work presents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Sebastian Frey , Giusy Spacone , Andrea Cossettini , Marco Guermandi , Philipp Schilk , Luca Benini , Victor Kartsch

Electronic health records (EHRs) provide a powerful basis for predicting the onset of health outcomes. Yet EHRs primarily capture in-clinic events and miss aspects of daily behavior and lifestyle containing rich health information. Consumer…

Wearable accelerometers are used for a wide range of applications, such as gesture recognition, gait analysis, and sports monitoring. Yet most existing foundation models focus primarily on classifying common daily activities such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Junyong Park , Oron Levy , Rebecca Adaimi , Asaf Liberman , Gierad Laput , Abdelkareem Bedri