arXiv Computation and Language

ARTA: Graph Combinatorial Optimization for Robust Interbeat Interval Estimation from Wearable Electrocardiogram Signals

ARTA is a graph‑based combinatorial framework that improves interbeat interval estimation from wearable ECG by integrating candidates from multiple detectors into a directed acyclic graph. It uses detector agreement, ECG quality, and history‑dependent transition costs to select a coherent heartbeat sequence via beam‑search dynamic programming, effectively suppressing false detections and recovering missed beats. On benchmark datasets, ARTA reduces heart‑rate mean absolute error by 54% compared to the best single detector and achieves high accuracy in R‑peak detection and IBI estimation while remaining lightweight and training‑free.

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 8

BeatFlow-ECG: Rectified Flow for ECG Reconstruction from Indirect Wearable Signals

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
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 1

Beat-Synchronous Tokenization for ECG Transformers

arXiv:2608.30367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer-based electrocardiogram (ECG) models commonly tokenize waveforms into fixed temporal patches. Though convenient, fixed patching can split h...

By Ahmed Sameh, Nolan Wilson, Max Enderlein, Yogatheesan Varatharajah
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

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.

By Kindeep K. Dhatt, Tengyue Wu, Hanbang Hua, Yayun Du
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Automated ECG Interval Measurement and Wave Delineation Using Fast Fourier Convolution ResNet

arXiv:2608. 00058v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate measurement of ECG intervals, including PR, QRS duration, and QT/QTc, is central to cardiac diagnosis, yet the published ECG delineation literature evaluates performance almost exclusively as fiducial-point timing errors on small curated databases, rather than as clinical interval accuracy on large unselected cohorts.

By Farhan Adam Mukadam, Harshit Mishra, Nachiket Makwana, Pradyot Tiwari, Subramani Kandasamy, KVS Hari
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 28

Vib2ECG: A Co-Located Chest-Lead SCG-ECG Dataset and Benchmark for ECG Reconstruction

Vib2ECG introduces a new dataset of synchronized twelve‑lead ECG and chest‑wall vibration recordings collected at the six standard precordial sites (V1–V6) from 17 subjects, using inertial measurement units. The accompanying benchmark demonstrates that a lightweight 364K‑parameter U‑Net can reconstruct electrical cardiac signals at various locations from these low‑cost vibrational signals, though a hallucination effect—where ECG waveforms appear without corresponding electrical activity—was observed and analyzed. This work expands the use of cardiac vibrational signals for mobile ECG monitoring and offers insights into the spatial relationship between cardiac electrical and mechanical activities.

By Guorui Lu, Xiaohui Cai, Todor Stefanov, Qinyu Chen
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 AI
Sep 21

Learning Cardiac Features: ECG Biometrics Across Time and~Exercise

The study investigates ECG biometrics by training a Siamese ResNet with late multi-lead fusion on a large dataset from cardiopulmonary exercise tests. It evaluates the model under realistic conditions, including exercise-induced stress and cross-session variability, achieving an intra-session rest-to-peak EER of 1.7% and a state‑of‑the‑art 3.9% on the CYBHi dataset. The results demonstrate that an intrinsic cardiac signature remains robust to physiological and temporal drift.

By Luca Thiebaud (AMU, AMU SCI, DIAPRO, LIS), Paul Chauchat (AMU SCI, AMU, LIS, DIAPRO), Mustapha Ouladsine (AMU SCI, AMU, LIS, DIAPRO), St\'ephane Delliaux (AMU, APHM, C2VN)
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 29

BeatGraph: Self-Supervised Heartbeat Graphs for Infant ECG Representations from the Home Environment

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.

By Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, M. S. Krafczyk, Beverly G. Bolster, Nancy McElwain, Mark A. Hasegawa-Johnson, Bashima Islam