arXiv:2607. 08073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) and Doppler ultrasound provide complementary views of fetal cardiovascular function: fECG captures electrical activity while Doppler reflects mechanical hemodynamics shaped by factors such as placental resistance and vascular compliance.
arXiv:2608. 12944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrocardiography (ECG), photoplethysmography (PPG), and phonocardiography (PCG) provide complementary views of the same cardiac cycle, yet existing cardiac foundation models are trained for a single sensing modality, leaving the shared physiology across sensors unexploited.
The study investigates how adding ballistocardiography (BCG) signals to photoplethysmography (PPG) and arterial pressure wave (APW) signals affects the estimation of cardiovascular biomarkers. Using a unified whole‑body cardiovascular model, synthetic PPG, APW, and BCG signals were generated and analyzed with neural posterior estimation and simulation‑based inference. Results show that incorporating BCG significantly improves estimation accuracy, converting multimodal posterior distributions from PPG/APW alone into unimodal distributions, thereby enhancing the reliability of cardiovascular biomarker estimation.
arXiv:2608. 14763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Assessment of ventriculomegaly (VM) on fetal brain ultrasound relies primarily on measuring lateral ventricular atrial width on standard planes, which is operator-dependent and may not fully reflect the overall ventricular enlargement.
The paper presents a hybrid Transformer framework that estimates non‑invasive continuous blood pressure from ECG/PPG‑derived feature sequences. It models 10‑step sequences of six physiological descriptors and two demographic covariates, combining Transformer, Kolmogorov‑Arnold Network, and XGBoost modules, and uses a dynamic fusion decoder to predict diastolic and systolic BP. On a large MIMIC‑III dataset, the model achieved mean errors of 0.41 mmHg (diastolic) and –1.60 mmHg (systolic) with high accuracy within 10 mmHg for most predictions.
Wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) and photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensors are complementary but individually fragile: motion artifact, poor contact, and sensor dropout can degrade one or both signals. Fus...
CardioFusion-AI is a framework for robust fusion of ECG and PPG signals in wearable physiological monitoring. Its signal‑processing front end, featuring R‑peak and systolic‑peak detection, an Orphanidou‑type signal‑quality index, and beat‑by‑beat pulse transit time estimation, was validated on 53 intensive‑care recordings and a fetal ECG database. In a controlled synthetic degradation study, attention fusion achieved the lowest overall error, while adaptive gates reallocated weight toward the healthy modality under complete loss, and signal‑quality conditioning improved performance when PPG was missing.
arXiv:2606. 11125v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Blood pressure (BP) is a key marker for cardiovascular risk assessment and therapeutic decision-making, and Photoplethysmography (PPG) enables low-cost, wearable-friendly cuffless BP estimation.
arXiv:2607. 20136v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Slice-to-volume reconstruction (SVR) is the standard method for obtaining high-resolution (HR) 3D fetal brain volumes from motion-corrupted 2D MRI slice stacks acquired in multiple orientations.
The paper introduces ORBIT, a self‑supervised method for detecting end‑diastolic and end‑systolic cardiac phases in fetal echocardiography without manual annotations. ORBIT learns a latent motion trajectory through registration, enabling orientation‑robust identification of phase transitions across diverse fetal heart positions. Evaluated on normal and congenital heart disease cases, it achieves low mean absolute errors (≈1.9–2.4 frames) and outperforms prior annotation‑free approaches that assume fixed orientations.
arXiv:2607. 00431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting models for health-signal digital twins must preserve the oscillatory, frequency, phase, and state-transition dynamics of physiological signals, yet the pointwise metrics used to benchmark them cannot detect when these fundamental properties are lost.
arXiv:2607. 23554v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we propose the MAEConformer, a novel self-supervised learning framework that combines the Conformer architecture with the Masked Autoencoder (MAE) paradigm for large-scale representation learning from unlabelled electroencephalography (EEG) and heart rate variability (HRV) signals.
BeatGraph is a self‑supervised model that represents infant ECG recordings as graphs of individual heartbeats rather than fixed‑length patches, allowing it to capture the higher heart rates and distinct waveform patterns of infants. The model uses a shared beat encoder, a Transformer for temporal ordering, and graph attention layers to produce a window embedding, which is pretrained on a large unlabeled infant ECG corpus and fine‑tuned for tasks such as sleep‑wake detection, infant‑state classification, activity‑source identification, and affect recognition. BeatGraph achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on multiple infant‑specific benchmarks and transfers well to pediatric and adult ECG datasets, while also releasing the first public infant ECG corpus collected in diverse home and classroom settings.