arXiv AI

HiPPT: Physiology-Grounded Wearable PPG Representation Learning via Multi-Scope Text Alignment

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 12

PPG-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for PPG Foundation Models

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 Machine Learning
Aug 4

Rethinking PPG-based Sleep Staging: Datasets, Metrics, and Benchmarks

arXiv:2608. 00943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated sleep staging assigns discrete stage labels to successive time epochs throughout an overnight recording; conventionally each window spans at least 30 seconds, reflecting the minimum temporal resolution of the clinical scoring standard.

By Shuntian Zheng, Jiawei Wang, Cong Fu, Huan Yu, Chen Chen, Yu Guan, Sai Gu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

Aortic Valve Disease Screening from PPG via Physiology-Guided Self-Supervised Learning

arXiv:2602. 04266v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Aortic valve disease (AVD) represents a major public health burden, while its diagnosis relies on echocardiography, which is limited by cost and specialist expertise, restricting scalable screening and risk stratification.

By Jiaze Wang, Qinghao Zhao, Zizheng Chen, Zhejun Sun, Deyun Zhang, Yuxi Zhou, Shenda Hong
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 6

Prototype-based Self-Supervised Multimodal Learning for PPG and Accelerometry Signals

arXiv:2510. 09764v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modeling multi-modal time-series data is critical for capturing system-level dynamics, particularly in biosignals where modalities such as ECG, PPG, EDA, and accelerometry provide complementary perspectives on interconnected physiological processes.

By Wanting Mao, Maxwell A Xu, Harish Haresamudram, Mithun Saha, Santosh Kumar, James Matthew Rehg
arXiv AI
Oct 27

Unlocking the Specialization Capability of PPG Foundation Models for Wearable Signals through Structured Pruning and Adaptive Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2610.33788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Photoplethysmography (PPG) plays a central role in wearable health monitoring and clinical decision support. However, existing approaches to universal...

By Huaming Du, Zhixian Xie, Gaoyang Zhen, Gang Kou, Guisong Liu, Yanchao Tan, Wendan Tao, Yuhao Xu, Carl Yang
arXiv AI
Aug 7

ECG-LENS: Lead-Aware Clinical Context Enriched ECG Report Generation and Evaluation

arXiv:2608. 05893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrocardiography (ECG) is one of the most widely used non-invasive tools for diagnosing cardiovascular disease, but transforming multi-lead ECG recordings into reliable clinical reports remains challenging.

By Akanta Das, Tasinul Islam Ahon, Ahmed Mahir Sultan Rumi, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Tausif Amim Shadly, Tanzima Hashem
arXiv AI
Sep 18

FOCAL: Fine-Grained Optimal-Transport-Driven Contrastive Alignment of Language and ECGs with Waveform Enhancement

FOCAL is a framework that aligns fine-grained ECG waveform segments with specific report tags using Optimal Transport, addressing the lack of localized representation in prior methods. It introduces a semantic similarity matrix to mitigate false negatives when reports share diagnoses, and a coarse‑to‑fine enrichment pipeline that employs Large Language Models to recover missing waveform semantics while filtering hallucinations. Experiments on six datasets show FOCAL achieves state‑of‑the‑art zero‑shot prediction and linear probing performance.

By Haitao Li, Che Liu, Zhengyao Ding, Ziyi Liu, Wenqi Shao, Zhengxing Huang
arXiv AI
Jul 14

MorphologyFM: A Foundation Model for Morphology-Aware Representation Learning from ECG and Pulse Oximetry Waveforms

arXiv:2607. 09749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for learning transferable representations from large scale biomedical data, yet existing approaches for physiological waveforms primarily optimize reconstruction or forecasting objectives that do not explicitly preserve clinically meaningful waveform morphology.

By Saiyang Feng, Yuanyun Zhang, Shi Li