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 arbitrary BP thresholds. It demonstrates that state‑of‑the‑art models suffer significant performance drops 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.
By Yunwon Tae, Minje Park, Gyunho Rho, Dongjoon Yoo, Sunghoon Joo
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
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: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: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 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