PPG-Bench is an open‑source benchmark that evaluates five publicly available photoplethysmography (PPG) foundation models across nine datasets and 26 tasks, covering cardiovascular state estimation, activity, sleep, screening, and identification. The benchmark tests models under four downstream regimes—linear probing, random forests, frozen MLP probes, and end‑to‑end finetuning—while also comparing them to three controls: a random/constant baseline, a deterministic pulse‑rate‑variability feature set, and a generic time‑series foundation model (MOMENT). Results show that over a third of task‑regime combinations yield no advantage for any PPG foundation model over the baseline, and in most cases no PPG‑specific model outperforms the simple controls, indicating that current PPG foundation models lack generalised, transferable representations.
By Arvasu Kulkarni, Mahir Jain, Aditya Ray Mishra, Sandeep Singh, Siddharth Panwar
arXiv:2606. 07365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Photoplethysmography (PPG), a non-invasive measure of changes in blood volume, is widely used in both wearable devices and clinical settings.
By Eloy Geenjaar, Vince Calhoun, Scott Daly, Gouthaman KV, Lie Lu, Trisha Mittal, Daniel P. Darcy
WearableQA is a new benchmark that tests AI systems on health reasoning using real-world wearable data from 200 users, each with up to 500 days of daily measurements. It contains 4,084 ten‑option multiple‑choice questions derived from wearable time series, blood biomarkers, and demographics, and is organized into 16 question types that distinguish data‑driven computation from physiological interpretation and single‑signal from cross‑signal reasoning. Evaluation of 14 large language models shows wide performance gaps, indicating that the benchmark remains challenging and useful for diagnosing model capabilities.
By Ji Soo Lee, Xilun Chen, Pierce Chuang, Ashish Shenoy, Jason Wei, Dohwan Ko, Hyunwoo J. Kim, Benoit Corda
arXiv:2607. 20027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Short-term Heart Rate Variability (HRV) forecasting could provide clinicians with actionable lead time for detecting autonomic dysfunction and adverse cardiac events.
By Luukas Per\"akyl\"a, Fahad Sohrab, Ville Hautam\"aki, Merja Hein\"aniemi, Sui Huang, Pekka Abrahamsson
arXiv:2607. 23406v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous cuffless blood pressure (BP) monitoring is essential for connected health systems and wearable devices, enabling early detection, longitudinal tracking, and personalized management of cardiovascular disease.
By Bo Wu, Haoling Wang, Zhuodiao Kuang, Kateryna Shapovalenko
The paper introduces an agent architecture that uses tools and memory to selectively correct wrist photoplethysmography (PPG) heart‑rate estimates. By generating candidate corrections from pulse, motion, and historical data, and evaluating their predicted benefits and harms, the system decides whether to retain, correct, or reject each estimate. Across four public datasets, the approach reduced mean absolute error by up to 44.5% and demonstrated real‑time deployment on a wearable‑smartphone platform.
By Xu Wang, Shuhan Yi, Zhen Cheng
Continuous cardiac monitoring outside clinical settings requires signals that are both informative and practical to collect during daily life. Electrocardiography (ECG) provides rich information about...
arXiv:2607. 27076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous cuffless blood pressure (BP) monitoring remains challenging due to motion artifacts, physiological variability, and the limited robustness of conventional pulse transit time (PTT) models under dynamic conditions.
By Kindeep K. Dhatt, Tengyue Wu, Hanbang Hua, Yayun Du
BeatFlow-ECG is a conditional rectified‑flow model that reconstructs single‑channel ECG signals from synchronized photoplethysmography (PPG) and inertial measurement unit (IMU) data. The architecture uses a convolutional encoder‑decoder with a transformer bottleneck and explicit flow‑time conditioning, incorporating motion information through IMU‑derived features, motion‑dependent loss weighting, and a curriculum learning strategy. Evaluated on PPG‑DaLiA and WESAD datasets with leave‑one‑subject‑out protocols, BeatFlow‑ECG outperforms deterministic, adversarial, and diffusion‑based baselines, achieving Pearson correlations of 0.983–0.986 and R‑peak F1 scores of 0.946–0.955, while reducing L1 error compared to Conditional DDPM‑1D.
By Mohamed Kamel, Sahar Selim, Walaa Medhat, Tamer Nadeem
Wrist-worn photoplethysmography (PPG) enables continuous monitoring of cardiopulmonary physiology, but reliable heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RR) estimation in free-living conditions remains challenging due to non-stationary motion artifacts that spectrally overlap with physiological dynamics. Existing signal-processing methods degrade under strong motion, while unconstrained deep learning approaches often lack physiological interpretability and identifiable structure.
arXiv:2608. 03251v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Commercial wearable devices continuously capture rich physiological data (e.
By Esther Brown, Karis Moon, Victoria Dean, Finale Doshi-Velez
arXiv:2606. 00141v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adaptive sensing strategies that selectively sample data are increasingly used in wearable health systems to improve prediction performance under limited data budgets, yet their benefits across individuals remain poorly understood.
By Ali Kargarandehkordi