arXiv Machine Learning

Single-Beat Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation Using Ear-PPG and ECG with a Lightweight Hybrid Learning Framework

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.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

DMT: Demographic Conditioning, Morphology-Enhanced Transformer for Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation from PPG Signals

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.

By Yidan Shen, Neville Mathew, Maham Rahimi, Deependra Dhakal, George Zouridakis, Xin Fu, Renjie Hu
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

SIFPBPNet: A Dual-Path Network for Wearable and Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation via Individualized Steady-state Representation

SIFPBPNet is a dual‑path neural network designed for cuffless blood‑pressure estimation from photoplethysmography (PPG) signals. It separates steady‑state and instantaneous features through a Steady‑state Feature Path (SFP) that uses a Graph Attention Network to learn individual‑specific long‑term patterns, and an Instantaneous Feature Path (IFP) that captures short‑term dynamics and fuses them with the steady‑state prior via cross‑attention. On a large wearable dataset, the model achieves mean absolute errors of 8.57 mmHg for systolic and 5.97 mmHg for diastolic BP, outperforming existing methods and showing that the SFP module can be added to other backbones for 2.8–13.1 % MAE reduction.

By Shuailong Tang, Xiaoyu Li, Donglin Xie, Wei Chen, Guangpu Zhu, Yelei Li, Yali Zheng
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Physics-Constrained Deep Learning Model for Contactless Blood Pressure Monitoring from Triaxial Bodyseismography

The paper introduces Phy‑BP, a physics‑constrained deep learning framework for contactless blood pressure monitoring using triaxial bodyseismography (BSG). It employs an adaptive quality‑control algorithm to select cardiogenic‑rich BSG segments and embeds a 3‑D wave‑propagation physical model into the neural network to align multi‑axis features, enhancing robustness to real‑world distortions. Experiments on a 162‑hour hospital dataset from 21 subjects demonstrate that Phy‑BP can filter low‑quality measurements and maintain accurate BP estimation even with limited training data.

By Yuanyuan Zhang, Yida Zhang, Jiahui Li, Yuyan Wu, Fei Dou, Xiao Yin, Zhenlin An, Hae Young Noh, Wenzhan Song
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

A Multidimensional Data-Driven Hybrid Transformer Framework for Non-invasive Continuous Blood Pressure Prediction

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.

By Yuexin Ma, Jingqi Hou, Yuxuan Kang, Zhaoying Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

CardioFusion-AI: Robust ECG--PPG Fusion for Multimodal Physiological Monitoring Under Signal Degradation

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.

By Navaneetha Krishnan Kamalakannan, Janakiraman Kamalakannan
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

Impact of Multiple Non-Invasive Biosignals on Cardiovascular Biomarker Estimation via Simulation-Based Inference

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.

By Shusaku Maeda, Masahiro Nakano, Tomoharu Iwata, Kenji Komiya, Ryo Nishikimi, Kunio Kashino
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

Physically-Constrained Harmonic Separation for Robust Heart and Respiratory Rate Estimation from Wrist Photoplethysmography

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.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 19

Change Point--Aware Evaluation and Re-Calibration of PPG-Based Blood Pressure Estimation

The paper introduces a fluctuation‑aware evaluation framework for photoplethysmography (PPG)‑based blood pressure (BP) estimation that uses time‑series change‑point detection to identify abrupt BP shifts, rather than relying on simple BP thresholds. It demonstrates that many state‑of‑the‑art models degrade significantly around these change points and that periodic test‑time calibration is inadequate. To mitigate this, the authors propose a targeted re‑calibration strategy triggered by detected change points, improving robustness without altering model architectures.