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Wearable photoplethysmography (WPPG) has recently become a common technology in heart rate (HR) monitoring. General observation is that the motion artifacts change the statistics of the acquired PPG signal. Consequently, estimation of HR…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Harishchandra Dubey , Ramdas Kumaresan , Kunal Mankodiya

Photoplethysmography (PPG) refers to the measurement of variations in blood volume using light and is a feature of most wearable devices. The PPG signals provide insight into the body's circulatory system and can be employed to extract…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yuyang Miao , Harry J. Davies , Danilo P. Mandic

Wearable devices are increasingly used as tools for biomedical research, as the continuous stream of behavioral and physiological data they collect can provide insights about our health in everyday contexts. Long-term tracking, defined in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Paula Lago

Photoplethysmography is a non-invasive optical technique that measures changes in blood volume within tissues. It is commonly and increasingly used for in a variety of research and clinical application to assess vascular dynamics and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Marton A. Goda , Peter H. Charlton , Joachim A. Behar

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is the leading non-invasive technique for monitoring biosignals and cardiovascular health, with widespread adoption in both clinical settings and consumer wearable devices. While machine learning models trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Arvind Pillai , Dimitris Spathis , Fahim Kawsar , Mohammad Malekzadeh

Foundation models have achieved remarkable success across various domains, yet their adoption in healthcare remains limited. While significant advances have been made in medical imaging, genetic biomarkers, and time series from electronic…

To date, research on sensor-equipped mobile devices has primarily focused on the purely supervised task of human activity recognition (walking, running, etc), demonstrating limited success in inferring high-level health outcomes from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Dimitris Spathis , Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo , Soren Brage , Nicholas J. Wareham , Cecilia Mascolo

Photoplethysmography (PPG) signals encode information about relative changes in blood volume that can be used to assess various aspects of cardiac health non-invasively, e.g.\ to detect atrial fibrillation (AF) or predict blood pressure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ciaran Bench , Vivek Desai , Mohammad Moulaeifard , Nils Strodthoff , Philip Aston , Andrew Thompson

Background: Artificial intelligence enabled electrocardiography (AI-ECG) has demonstrated the ability to detect diverse pathologies, but most existing models focus on single disease identification, neglecting comorbidities and future risk…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Jun Li , Hongling Zhu , Yujie Xiao , Qinghao Zhao , Yalei Ke , Gongzheng Tang , Guangkun Nie , Deyun Zhang , Jin Li , Canqing Yu , Shenda Hong

Electroencephalography (EEG) is commonly used by physicians for the diagnosis of numerous neurological disorders. Due to the large volume of EEGs requiring interpretation and the specific expertise involved, artificial intelligence-based…

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is the electrical measurement of cardiac activity, whereas Photoplethysmogram (PPG) is the optical measurement of volumetric changes in blood circulation. While both signals are used for heart rate monitoring, from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Pritam Sarkar , Ali Etemad

Increased use of sensor signals from wearable devices as rich sources of physiological data has sparked growing interest in developing health monitoring systems to identify changes in an individual's health profile. Indeed, machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Magda Amiridi , Gregory Darnell , Sean Jewell

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Yuenan Li , Xin Tian , Qiang Zhu , Min Wu

Wearable devices with photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors are widely used to monitor heart rate (HR), yet often suffer from accuracy issues. However, users typically do not receive an indication of potential measurement errors. We present a…

In recent years, there have been a surge in ubiquitous technologies such as smartwatches and fitness trackers that can track the human physical activities effortlessly. These devices have enabled common citizens to track their physical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-02 Venkata Devesh Reddy Seethi , Pratool Bharti

The goal of this work is to demonstrate the use of the ballistocardiogram (BCG) signal, derived using head-mounted wearable devices, as a viable biometric for authentication. The BCG signal is the measure of an person's body acceleration as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-10 Joshua Hebert , Brittany Lewis , Hang Cai , Krishna K. Venkatasubramanian , Matthew Provost , Kelly Charlebois

Wearable devices are on the rise. Smart watches and phones, fitness trackers or smart textiles now provide unprecedented access to our own personal data. As such, wearable devices can enable health monitoring without disrupting our daily…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-05 Julie Payette , Fabrice Vaussenat , Sylvain G. Cloutier

Wearable devices are often used in clinical and epidemiological studies to monitor physical activity behavior and its influence on health outcomes. These devices are worn over multiple days to record activity patterns, such as step counts…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-14 Heyang Ji , Lan Xue , Ufuk Beyaztas , Roger S. Zoh , Jeff Goldsmith , Mark E. Benden , Carmen D. Tekwe

Cardiorespiratory fitness is an established predictor of metabolic disease and mortality. Fitness is directly measured as maximal oxygen consumption (VO$_{2}max$), or indirectly assessed using heart rate responses to standard exercise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Dimitris Spathis , Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo , Tomas I. Gonzales , Yu Wu , Soren Brage , Nicholas Wareham , Cecilia Mascolo

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a method of detecting variation in blood volume commonly through contact with the skin and involving the usage of one or multiple sensors. PPG is typically used in health-related fields and one of its most…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Jiesheng He , Wei Wu