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Recent statistics indicate that approximately 1.3 billion individuals worldwide suffer from hypertension, a leading cause of premature death globally. Blood Pressure (BP) serves as a critical health indicator for accurate and timely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-19 Amir Arjomand , Amin Boudesh , Farnoush Bayatmakou , Kenneth B. Kent , Arash Mohammadi

In recent years, research about monitoring vital signs by smartphones grows significantly. There are some special sensors like Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Photoplethysmographic (PPG) to detect heart rate (HR) and respiration rate (RR).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Jafar Pourbemany , Almabrok Essa , Ye Zhu

Wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) is embedded in billions of devices, yet its optical waveform is easily corrupted by motion, perfusion loss, and ambient light, jeopardizing downstream cardiometric analytics. Existing signal-quality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Wei Shao , Ruoyu Zhang , Zequan Liang , Ehsan Kourkchi , Setareh Rafatirad , Houman Homayoun

Modern wearable devices can conveniently record various biosignals in the many different environments of daily living, enabling a rich view of individual health. However, not all biosignals are the same: high-fidelity biosignals, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Salar Abbaspourazad , Anshuman Mishra , Joseph Futoma , Andrew C. Miller , Ian Shapiro

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is widely used as a non-invasive and accessible modality for continuous health monitoring. However, despite being a peripheral hemodynamic signal intrinsically coupled with systemic circulation, existing research…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Guangkun Nie , Xiaocheng Fang , Gongzheng Tang , Yujie Xiao , Jun Li , Bo Liu , Hongyan Li , Shenda Hong

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

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) has gained significant attention in recent years for its ability to extract physiological signals from facial videos. While existing rPPG measurement methods have shown satisfactory performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Qian Liang , Yan Chen , Yang Hu

Heart failure is a debilitating condition that affects millions of people worldwide and has a significant impact on their quality of life and mortality rates. An objective assessment of cardiac pressures remains an important method for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Hyewon Jeong , Collin M. Stultz , Marzyeh Ghassemi

Objective: to establish an algorithmic framework and a benchmark dataset for comparing methods of pulse rate estimation using imaging photoplethysmography (iPPG). Approach: first we reveal essential steps of pulse rate estimation from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-01 Anton M. Unakafov

Photoplethysmography (PPG)-based blood pressure (BP) estimation represents a promising alternative to cuff-based BP measurements. Recently, an increasing number of deep learning models have been proposed to infer BP from the raw PPG…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Mohammad Moulaeifard , Peter H. Charlton , Nils Strodthoff

Deep Learning (DL) have greatly contributed to bioelectric signals processing, in particular to extract physiological markers. However, the efficacy and applicability of the results proposed in the literature is often constrained to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-27 Andrea Bizzego , Giulio Gabrieli , Michelle Jin-Yee Neoh , Gianluca Esposito

The presented study aims to estimate blood pressure (BP) using photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals while employing multiple machine learning models. The study proposes a novel algorithm for signal reconstruction, which utilizes the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-23 Aayushman Ghosh , Sayan Sarkar , Jayant Kalra

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

The vast majority of cardiovascular diseases may be preventable if early signs and risk factors are detected. Cardiovascular monitoring with body-worn sensor devices like sensor patches allows for the detection of such signs while…

Domain shift differences between training data for deep learning models and the deployment context can result in severe performance issues for models which fail to generalize. We study the domain shift problem under the context of remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Nathan Vance , Patrick Flynn

We train and validate a semi-supervised, multi-task LSTM on 57,675 person-weeks of data from off-the-shelf wearable heart rate sensors, showing high accuracy at detecting multiple medical conditions, including diabetes (0.8451), high…

The ability to reliably estimate physiological signals from video is a powerful tool in low-cost, pre-clinical health monitoring. In this work we propose a new approach to remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) - the measurement of blood volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 John Gideon , Simon Stent

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…

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is an emerging contactless physiological sensing technique that leverages subtle color variations in facial videos to estimate vital signs such as heart rate and respiratory rate. This non-invasive method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ba-Thinh Nguyen , Thach-Ha Ngoc Pham , Hoang-Long Duc Nguyen , Thi-Duyen Ngo , Thanh-Ha Le

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